White House challenges release of visitor logs

[EV_Ares]

By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer

Apr 21st, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is challenging a court ruling that White House visitor logs are public documents, saying releasing the records would infringe on the separation of powers.

White House documents are normally exempt from public records laws, but a federal judge ruled in December that Secret Service visitor logs must be released. The court sided with a liberal watchdog group that sought records showing visits by prominent religious conservatives to the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's residence.

The Bush administration appealed and lawyers were scheduled to argue the case Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Government lawyers argue the president and vice president must be able to receive visitors and solicit advice privately. They portrayed the request for Secret Service records as an end-around, saying those same logs maintained by the White House would never be considered public documents.

Link to rest of article: http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2008/04/21/D90643EG1_white_house_secrecy/index.html

[annabanana]

1. Has any previous admin attempted to keep these particulars

a deep dark secret... or just this one?

[Botany]

2. now who would be on those logs?

Jack Abramoff
Jeff Gannon
Chalibi

[CJCRANE]

3. If they have nothing to hide....

then why hide them?

:shrug:

[gratuitous]

7. Didn't Bush himself say

Didn't Bush himself say that folks who haven't done anything wrong have nothing to hide?

Besides, now that we have official confirmation that the White House reviewed and approved torture with the full knowledge and consent of Mr. Bush, what could possibly be in the visitor logs that could be worse than that?

:think:

Oh.

:scared:

[and-justice-for-all]

4. Put them in fuckin' jail already!! DAMN IT!! nt

[SpiralHawk]

5. "Keep the records secret." - Jeff Gannon, official Bush White House Male Prostitute

"Fer sure." - - Jeff Gannon, official Bush White House Male Prostitute

[elizfeelinggreat]

6. Absolutely

what everyone else has said:


GANNON GANNON GANNON

[1776Forever]

8. Here is a YouTube video from 2007 with Gannon - Link

http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=3355

He wrote a book and went on a college "tour" to promote it and says he wants to change the media!

[Ilsa]

9. Maybe the advice should be kept private, but the id of the "visitors" should be known. nt

[Supersedeas]

10. something to hide -- the Establishment media will never tell