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Obama yields on White House visitor logs
MSNBC ^ | 9/4/09 | Bill Dedman

Posted on 09/04/2009 8:22:06 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus

The Obama administration says it will release names of most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Information on visitors in the first eight months of his administration will remain secret — unless you know which names to ask for.

The White House called the release of information "voluntary," continuing to argue the Bush administration's position that full disclosure is not required by the Freedom of Information Act.

After being sued twice by a nonprofit organization seeking the records, the Obama administration said Friday it will post the visitor logs online. The release will be time delayed, with 90 to 120 days passing before the records are posted on the White House Web site. And only visits after Sept. 15, 2009, will be revealed.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: crew; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; flipflop; foia; karlmarxlite; lawsuit; lyingliar; obama; obamaadministration; obamaflipflops; obamalies; obamascandals; secrecy; transparency; visitorlog; visitorlogs; whitehousevisitors
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To: Titus-Maximus

Makes you wonder just WHO was given access to the WH in the 1st 9 months.
With an avowed Communist as one on Zero’s Tsars you wonder if the Violent, vicious radicals from the 60’-70’s are getting special access. Interesting that VanJones is from Oakland, the very same snake pit that Hillary spent the late 60’s providing legal assistance to the Black Panthers.


61 posted on 09/04/2009 11:05:03 AM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: Titus-Maximus

What a bunch.


62 posted on 09/04/2009 11:06:11 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Past WH visitors’ names will remain secret: such as the passengers on the NYC skyline joyride.


63 posted on 09/04/2009 11:10:29 AM PDT by drierice
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To: Titus-Maximus

Ask for Larry Sinclair.


64 posted on 09/04/2009 11:15:50 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Must be hiding something.


65 posted on 09/04/2009 11:18:32 AM PDT by coconut47
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To: Titus-Maximus
"Bush's fault" or "Bush did it too"

Those people need to make up their minds.

66 posted on 09/04/2009 11:35:16 AM PDT by txroadkill (The SDS has taken control of the country.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

These are records kept by the Secret Service.
Secrets are not supposed to be “transparent,” duh, but for the marxists all depends on WHOSE the secrets are.
This results from a lawsuit vs. the Bush43 administration.


67 posted on 09/04/2009 11:50:16 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (My faith consoles me. St Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus, pray for us.)
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To: ScottinVA

Ayers, Farrakhan, Wright, West, for starters.


68 posted on 09/04/2009 12:01:49 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: RummyChick

He’s looking more like 52(facebook age), than 47 (BC-BS) with each passing day.


69 posted on 09/04/2009 12:10:09 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: romanesq

The Org for America clones have been ordered to call twice on 9/11 to burn up the DC phone lines in support of DeathCare. WE need to call TEN times each to counter. eFF them all.


70 posted on 09/04/2009 12:16:03 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: Honcho Bongs

Guess they don’t want to release how many of his family are living at the WH either since they keep going on foreign visits. Even the Clintons had to pay for friends of Chelsea that went on trips with them.

Do the Obama’s pay for anything? We don’t even know how they fund their CZARs at $182,000 a pop.


71 posted on 09/04/2009 1:28:06 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin - OK Gov/Coburn - Senate 2010 ! Take Back the House/Senate! Stop ZERO!)
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To: ScottinVA
why cant someone just start sending FOIA's by the truckload with a different name on each one? They'd all have to be responded to, regardless of merit, and any that are returned "N/A" can be used as a cross reference later when they lie about it?
72 posted on 09/04/2009 4:14:17 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (If the Average nObama Voter is Anything Like Peggy Joseph, The Next 4 Years Will Be A Hoot!!!!)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP


73 posted on 09/05/2009 12:43:29 AM PDT by devolve ( . . . . . . . . . . never whack them with a 2x4 if 4x4 is handy . . . . . . . . . . .)
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To: txroadkill

when they say Bush did it to then you so he’s just like Bush then..it really pisses them off..lmao. everytime you compare BO to Bush and point out something they do the same it makes them soooooo mad. Its comical.


74 posted on 09/05/2009 7:50:08 AM PDT by Jessica2677 (I cant afford taxes anymore so I am claiming EXEMPT!)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Headlines for the sheeple:

Whitehouse “Yields”

Rangel “Beleagered”

Horsepucky!!!!

The current “Whitehouse” residents are the MOST hypocritical, opaque obfuscators and doublespeakers that I have seen.

And since the media sees that most people just barely read headlines, putting the big half truth in the 24 pt font is working for them. They can miserably and failingly explain what the real story is on paragraph five after the full eloquent paragraph four describing hatefully the attributes of republicans.

Its Yorktown on Monday and DC on Saturday for me. March on good Freepers into this dark night and fray!! March on I say!!!!!


75 posted on 09/05/2009 8:38:33 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: ScottinVA

How about his drug dealers? We don’t know their names anyway.


76 posted on 09/05/2009 1:43:48 PM PDT by bboop (Tar and feathers -- good back then, good now)
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To: Titus-Maximus

...TRANSPARENCY? SOS FROM OUR POS POTUS!!!


77 posted on 09/05/2009 3:55:51 PM PDT by gargoyle (...My thoughts are not seditious, or treasonous, they're revolutionary...)
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To: RummyChick
This is from a Mufti http://albalagh.net/qa/hair_dye.shtml
”To dye the hair any other color besides black e.g. Mehndi or Katm (type of grass) is permissible.”
78 posted on 09/05/2009 3:57:23 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Statement-from-the-President-on-the-First-Time-Disclosure-Policy-for-White-House-Visitor-Logs/

THE BRIEFING ROOM

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
__________________________________________________________________________
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2009

STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE FIRST TIME
DISCLOSURE POLICY FOR WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS

As another indication of his commitment to an open and transparent government, the President announced today that for the first time in history, records of White House visitors will be released. Each month, records of visitors from the previous 90-120 days will be made available online.

“For the first time in history, records of White House visitors will be made available to the public on an ongoing basis,” said President Obama. “We will achieve our goal of making this administration the most open and transparent administration in history not only by opening the doors of the White House to more Americans, but by shining a light on the business conducted inside. Americans have a right to know whose voices are being heard in the policymaking process.”

Aside from a small group of appointments that cannot be disclosed because of national security imperatives or their necessarily confidential nature (such as a visit by a possible Supreme Court nominee), the record of every visitor who comes to the White House for an appointment, a tour, or to conduct business will be released.

Previous administrations fought disclosure of White House visitor logs in court. This administration began a review of the policy during its first days in office.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government reform organization which has long objected to administrations keeping White House visitor logs secret, said in a statement from its executive director Melanie Sloan:

“Today the Obama administration has proven its pledge to usher in a new era of government transparency was more than just a campaign promise. The Obama administration will have the most open White House in history. Providing public access to visitor records is an important step in restoring transparency and accountability to our government.”

The administration thanks CREW for their participation in the development of this new policy.

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79 posted on 09/05/2009 11:03:18 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Titus-Maximus
Vera Baker? Louis Farrakhan? Al Sharpton? Jesse Jackson? Malik Shabazz? Jeremiah Wright?

I wonder how many actual documents we peasants will be allowed to read, and how many actual documents have since been shredded or otherwise destroyed completely.

80 posted on 09/06/2009 4:46:41 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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