Cheney lawyer told Secret Service not to keep copies of visitor logs

[babylonsister]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070529-1448-cheney-secrecy.html

Cheney lawyer told Secret Service not to keep copies of visitor logs

By Pete Yost
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:48 p.m. May 29, 2007

WASHINGTON – A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney's lawyer says logs for Cheney's residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.

Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president.

The Justice Department filed the letter Friday in a lawsuit by a private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who visited Cheney at his official residence.

The newly disclosed letter about visitors to Cheney's residence is accompanied by an 18-page Secret Service document revealing the agency's long-standing practice has been to destroy printed daily access lists of visitors to the residence.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Um, excuse me? This has nothing to do with either Cindy Sheehan or The View.

[Maat]

6. Exactly!

We're supposed to mindlessly focus on The View and Dancing With The Stars, or whatever, instead of our country going down the toilet! HeeHee (I have to laugh and note the irony, or I will cry). The dictator-in-chief and his puppet master continue to break all records for violating the law, and our country's basic principles, and not getting called on it!

[RevCheesehead]

2. Well, they're already invisible to surveillance cameras...

since their reflection doesn't show in mirrors.

[babylonsister]

4. ...

:applause: :applause:

[RevCheesehead]

8. Hiya, sis!

Gonna join us tonight? KO's got Al Gore on!

[babylonsister]

9. I'm waiting for it! HAven't been there in awhile; I just might!

My problem is I miss a big part of the show because I have to turn from the keyboard to watch it.
I need to redecorate my room.

How ARE you, Rev? Long time no see!:pals:

[RevCheesehead]

12. Sometimes the blog is the best part.

But tonite, it's Al:loveya:Gore, baby!!

:pals:

[proud patriot]

3. Criminals

:grr:

[IChing]

5. Secret Government

[blogslut]

7. I'm reminded of a phrase...

Hmmm....what was it again?

Oh yeah! Mr. Cheney, if you haven't done anything wrong then you shouldn't have anything to hide. :)

[BrotherBuzz]

10. I'm reminded of a quote

"We expect there to be transparency. People who have something to hide make us nervous." - Bush*, Anchorage, Alaska, Feb. 16, 2002

[NNN0LHI]

11. Gannon/Guckert n/t

[KoKo]

13. Okay... they are ABOVE THE LAW...so who is going to call them Accountable?

WE KNOW what they've been doing...so who will hold them to the law. It seems for Repugs there IS ..NO LAW! So...who will hold them accountable. If there isn't really a law then why did so many Presidents AND THEIR Staffs seem to worry about it in "Other Administrations?"

Or were they all just weenies? Until Big Dick and Big Cogpiece came along...seems most folks in Government were a little more reticent to GO AT the American People?

:shrug:

[babylonsister]

14. UPDATE from link in OP:

UPDATE: Such unethical secrecy is not new for the Vice President. In 2005, the Center for Public Integrity discovered that “Cheney and his staff have been unilaterally exempting themselves from long-standing travel disclosure rules followed by the rest of the executive branch, including the Office of the President.”