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**Angeheade** · 06-01-2007, 12:38 PM

Well, this adminsitration is known for being extremely secretive, but an action like this certainly begs the question, what are they hiding?

from the story on the ABC site:

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. You known, this really stinks. Are all visitors to the White House actually visiting the President? Of course not. But to call them "presidential records"??

In the past, Secret Service logs have revealed the comings and goings of various White House visitors, including Monica Lewinsky and Clinton campaign donor Denise Rich, the wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich, who received a pardon in the closing hours of the Clinton administration. So if Clinton was a devious as Bush, he might have taken the same action to close the White House visitor logs and saved himself a whole lot of trouble, eh?

And the kicker....

The memo last spring was signed by the White House and Secret Service the day after a Washington-based group asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Secret Service in a dispute over White House visitor logs for Abramoff.

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Angeheade Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 679 Senior Member	Well, this adminsitration is known for being extremely secretive, but an action like this certainly begs the question, what are they hiding? from the story on the ABC site: 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. You known, this really stinks. Are all visitors to the White House actually visiting the President? Of course not. But to call them "presidential records"?? In the past, Secret Service logs have revealed the comings and goings of various White House visitors, including Monica Lewinsky and Clinton campaign donor Denise Rich, the wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich, who received a pardon in the closing hours of the Clinton administration. So if Clinton was a devious as Bush, he might have taken the same action to close the White House visitor logs and saved himself a whole lot of trouble, eh? And the kicker.... The memo last spring was signed by the White House and Secret Service *the day after* a Washington-based group asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Secret Service in a dispute over White House visitor logs for Abramoff.
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