The most transparent administration in the history of mankind has appealed a judge’s decision that the White House visitor logs are subject to disclosure under FOIA
As transparent as toilet water. Just as stinky too.
(POLITICO) — The Obama administration is appealing a judge’s ruling that Secret Service records of visitors to the White House complex are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
The Justice Department filed a formal notice of appeal Friday afternoon regarding U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell’s August ruling rejecting arguments that the so-called WAVES records belong to the White House even though they are maintained and used by the Secret Service.
The decision to appeal the ruling to the D.C. Circuit would appear to be in tension with Obama’s repeated pledges to operate the most transparent administration in history. The White House announced in Sept. 2009 that it was voluntarily releasing the names of most White House visitors from Sept. 15 forward. However, the conservative group Judicial Watch sought information on visits before that date.
The position taken by the Obama Justice Department, namely that White House visitor records are presidential records and not agency records, is essentially the same one that the department took under President George W. Bush.
Howell did not rule that every White House visit had to be disclosed. However, she concluded that all the data had to be made public unless the government asserted a specific exemption from FOIA, such as provisions protecting national security and privacy.
There was no immediate comment on the appeal from the White House or the Justice Department.
Posted by WM on Saturday, October 15, 2011, at 8:27 pm | 
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No surprise.
If they have nothing to hide, why not show them? Or anything other Obama info for that matter…
If they would have just released the logs, no one would have cared. Now that they’re refusing, I’m really curious who has been visiting the WH that needs to be hidden.
Conflict between the executive branch and the Dept. of Justice is a fact of life and has been for several decades. This includes republican administrations. This is due to the fact the Dept. of Justice commits crimes against people, brainwash assassins to life, etc. You have heard the stories, there is something to it.
It’s probably going to show the organizers and connections to OWS too!
You can dress up treason in pretty rhetoric, but it’s still treason. We knew what to do with traitors once upon a time.
His mysterious guests like DR ZINN,MUMRA,COBRA COMMANDER,LEGION OF DOOM,SEAN PENN,RATTLESNAKE JAKE, and numerous other villians too many to remember
I hate to keep falling back on this but it can’r be helped… It’s so damn obvious!
Imagine if this were the Bush admin.???
tick tock..
I told ya before: transparent means invisible.
The reason they’re fighting this is because the SS guys MUST be doing their job and insisting that everyone sign in. I’d be willing to bet that early on, the Obongo Admin tried to intimidate them into NOT adhering to the protocol.
Don’t we have the right to know who’s visiting OUR HOUSE?
Transparent as a stagnant pond. What with all this secrecy in the WH, the Prez won’t hand over his blackberry on the Solyndra deal, the F & F situation which now we learn isn’t “just” guns, but additional ammo, the failure of this President to turn over much if any of his identification/student information, and the list goes on.
Yes, transparent as a stagnant pond.
Hmmm, trying to hide the visitor logs under the guise of national security. Shades of Richard Nixon and the tape gaps.
Old – Halo pictures
New – Cross hair pictures.
‘Bongo and his admin are shiny on the outside
just like a fresh turd
@Hickster
Yes, transparent as a stagnant pond.
Cesspool would be more like it.
…an administration as transparent as Oh!bama….yep, just
LOOK at Oh!bama……you can squint all you want….but
there’s NOTHING of substance to be seen. First “camo”
Prez in history….hard to define, but verrry dangerous,
nonetheless.
Resign Fraud.
Is the military watching all of this? I hope so.
Suggesting that a black man be transparent is…wait for it…you guessed it…RACIST!
Sentinel says:
October 15, 2011 at 9:58 pm
Hmmm, trying to hide the visitor logs under the guise of national security. Shades of Richard Nixon and the tape gaps.
C’mon. Nixon was not a big deal. If it had been a Democrat Watergate would have been briefly mentioned on the 10:00 Friday night news and that would have been the end of it. It pales next to Sandy Berger stealing paperwork related to Clinton’s responsibility for 9-11. As for the Obama admin, to use their favorite expression, this past 3 years have been unprecedented, truly unprecedented.
This presidency as well as administration is definitely “unprecedented”.
@ Tagufu222
LOL!
This was all over the news…..oh wait. That was 6 years ago.
If we live through this nightmare Obama and his party have unleashed on the American people will the Democrats even have a chance of survival after this?
As Noelegy says, “Don’t we have the right to know who’s visiting OUR HOUSE?”
YES WE DO!
This is especially disgusting since this President campaigned on transparency. Supporters of this President were so disgusted when President Bush pulled the same BS manuver. More disgust when these same supporters are suddenly silent. Where is the news on this? Are they still blindly following a politician that is known to break campaign promises and go back on his true beliefs of transparentcy? This entire situation reeks of the smell coming from the local pig farmers farm.
Something to hide, Mr. President?
visits by his Masters from the Muslim Brotherhood are not very PR
as are visits by G. Soros
This is partially related to the Solyndra / green energy scandals.
Also, I wouldn’t be surprised to find visits from the Black Panthers, the Muzzie Brotherhood, the Unions, Trumka, and Bill Ayres.
Then of course, there’s the people who come by to meet with the Wookie and her Santeria witch mother. I’d love to see that list!
White House’s Lobbyist Meetings Kept Secret by Being Held “Off-Site”
“secret meetings Administration officials are holding with lobbyists outside the White House gates – primarily to avoid the “visitor disclosure” requirements the Obama Administration implemented for “official” meetings on White House grounds. Among the nuggets in the story are:
http://www.texasinsider.org/?p=43052
It’s kind of a moot point to try and figure this thing out now.
who is gonna talk about these “official” meetings and tell us
The who and where? Damage has been done. This was nothing like clintons coffee fundraisers. So after all is said and done what’s the point and who is gonna care?
Invest in gold to protect against inflation . Invest in weapons and munitions to defeat tyranny . Yes this Socialist , muzzie lover is transparent to the point that we clearly see through all the Bullshit he and his ilk have dumped on America .
He doesn’t want it revealed because it will show the number 1 most frequently repeated name on the White House visitor is is Louis “Calypso Louie” FARRAKHAN.
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@ curious
a Malik Shabaaz is listed as a visitor 4 times . These visits were in the days just before and after the DOJ dismissal of the voter intimidation charges. But, the WH has assured us it is not THAT Malik Shabaaz.
Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan were also guests.Not the same reprobates you might have thought according to the WH,lol.
Nice friends you have there Hussein.Don’t believe for one minute he has renounced that ole time muzz/liberation theology “faith.”
http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/03/22/the-white-house-guess-list-how-obama-pulled-a-fast-one-on-the-american-people-in-the-name-of-transparency/
The WH will tie this up in court as long as possible, then just blow it off, and NOTHING will be done about it!
Can’t wait until next Nov. I’d raise hell with my congresscreep, but unfortunately I’m stuck with Raul “Greasy” Grijava.
Monday: Richard Trumka
Tuesday: Richard Trumka
Wednesday: Richard Trumka
Thursday: Richard Trumka
Friday: Richard Trumka
Imagine what a lineup of louts, lefties and shitheads is on that list. No wonder they are fighting it.
The White House is public property. The people who own it have a right to know who is visiting.
They keep spelling it incorrectly.
The most TRANSGENER regime in history.
Well me too.
The most TRANSGENDER regime in history.
It’s so disgusting, no one wants to spell it or get near it.
They’re just trying to set a precedent. Get the WH list of visitors banned from publication, which banishes it from the citizens’ eyes forever. He’ll find a friendly judge sooner or later.
Just goes along with the rest of his plans for America.