White House follows new path to secrecy

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - A newly disclosed effort to keep Vice President Dick Cheney's visitor records secret is the latest White House push to make sure the public doesn't learn who has been meeting with top officials in the Bush administration.

Over the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Cheney have directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor entry and exit logs, declaring them to be presidential records, exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to see them.

The drive to keep the logs secret, the administration says, is essential to assuring that the president and vice president receive candid advice to carry out their duties.
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There was precedent for the demands.

During the Clinton administration, Republican-controlled congressional committees obtained Secret Service visitor logs while conducting investigations of the president and first lady.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_cheney_secrecy

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When will this crap end!

1) Sauron
2) Ernst Stavro Blofeld
3) Lex Luthor
4) Oil Company Executives
5) Cobra Commander
6) Big Tobacco Representatives
7) Jerry Falwell
8) Darth Vader
9) Nazguls and/or Blackwater associates
10) Dracula

:rofl:

Cheney IS the president.

and puts a stop to it . . . thusfar they've done nothing but pontificate, cave, and enable . . .

seems that Congress' agenda is not that much different than BushCo's . . .

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/01/cheney.secrecy.ap/index.html

Exempt? Nice, huh?

If they need to receive 'candid' advice from someone whose name it would cause trouble to reveal, you have to wonder just what they are up to.

There is almost no chance such measures would ever be necessary to protect legitimate consultations. They are only needed to permit this maladministration to undermine democracy.

if that's the case add another violation of the Presidential Records Act (Hatch?)for routinely destroying the logs.