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reechee             POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:San Rafael, CA |
posted 04-14-2017 05:01 PM
    
The Trump administration will not make its records of visitors to the White House available to the public, Time and The Washington Post reported Friday. The decision is a departure from the Obama administration, which did release the logs. Michael Dubke, the White House communications director, told Time that the White House’s decision was made out of concern for national security and privacy, and to protect President Donald Trump’s ability to discreetly seek counsel. Citing “the grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually,” the White House said in a statement that it would “disclose Secret Service logs as outlined under the Freedom of Information Act.” The Obama White House agreed in late 2009 to begin releasing its visitor records on a delayed basis, after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued to have the records made public. White House lawyers also deleted names for national security and other reasons before the logs were made public. It said that it would also post records from the beginning of his presidency that are specifically requested. Last December, the administration said that it had released more than 5.99 million records.
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ed monahan        POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Cincinnati, Oh, USA |
posted 04-14-2017 05:14 PM
So they had to SUE Obama to get them? |
BeWare POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:Acworth , Georgia , USA |
posted 04-14-2017 11:21 PM
So what you posted bothers you now, but none of the following ever did with Obama. What's up with that?
In Obama’s final year, U.S. spent $36 million in FOIA lawsuits
7) Reporters Say Obama White House 'Most Secretive' Ever ... *) And last your article is not 100% factually correct about Obama releasing visitor logs. Appeals court says White House visitor logs can be kept from public
The case was brought by Judicial Watch, the government watchdog nonprofit that has been fighting a long legal battle seeking to force release of the White House visitor logs as public records under the Freedom of Information Act. But in a decision that is drawing intense criticism from across the ideological spectrum, the circuit court said the president has a "constitutional perogative" not to tell the American people who he or his staff meets with in the White House. The court said the president has such a prerogative because he is not covered by the FOIA and because of "special policy considerations" that allow exemption of visitor logs from classification as agency records subject to release under the public records law. President Obama began making public some of the White House visitor logs in 2009, but refused a Judicial Watch request for all of the logs. This message has been edited by BeWare on 04-14-2017 at 11:35 PM |
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reechee POA Site Supporter Prowler Junkie From:San Rafael, CA |
posted 04-15-2017 05:02 PM
Yes Ed, And I donated to help that lawsuit. Open government is important regardless of party. |
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ed monahan POA Lifetime Site Supporter Prowler Junkie Personal ScrapBook From:Cincinnati, Oh, USA |
posted 04-15-2017 08:14 PM
Did Slick Willie ever divulge who he rented rooms to? |
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