Government responds to FOIA request with 100+ totally blacked out pages

[deminks]

Government responds to CREW FOIA request about White House visitor records with 100+ redacted pages

http://blog.citizensforethics.org/node/347

CREW has been trying to obtain access visitor records to the White House for months now. Those records had been under the control of the Secret Service, which made them subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The White House is now claiming visitor records are under their control -- and, therefore, not subject to FOIAs because the White House is exempt. We believe that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been in a dispute with the White House about those records. NARA doesn't quite buy the White House argument -- and we want to know what they've said to the White House. So, we sent a FOIA request to NARA requesting the relevant the relevant documents. You can see the very heavily redacted response we got from NARA, which is fairly typical from this administration. The pdf versions of the responses can be found here and here. NARA, the Department of the Justice and the White House obviously were in frequent communication about these records. Here's a snapshot of your government's response to a request for information:

also via Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Government_blacks_out_whole_response_to_1205.html

[matcom]

1. so Bin Laden visited the White House 100+ times!

that is the ONLY logical conclusion

[YOY]

2. "100+ totally blacked out pages"

Has Mark Foley been sneaking in rufies again?

Sorry, it was there... and the reality of the situation is too bleak to not use humor!

[Flirtus]

3. i almost never actually laugh out loud

oh dear