White House argues its visitors log is off-limits to public

All secret all the time. Bush disgusts me.

The White House and the Secret Service signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

The Bush administration didn't reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until the fall. The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

In a federal appeals-court filing three weeks ago, the administration's lawyers used the memo in a legal argument aimed at overturning the judge's ruling. The Washington Post is suing for access to the Secret Service logs.

The five-page document dated May 17 declares that all entry and exit data on White House visitors belongs to the White House as presidential records rather than to the Secret Service as agency records. Therefore, the agreement states, the material is not subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

I doubt this is as it seems. Are they trying to hide lobbyist's visits? It don't take a tinfoil hat to see something is being hidden here beyond Abramoff's visits.

The secrecy of the Bush cabal is frightening. If anyone investigates Bush's presidency they are shut out by "state secrets", or "presidential papers" or any other fucking ruse.

There's a madman in the White House and he will destroy America if not the world if he isn't stopped.

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