Posted on 06/01/2007 6:01:39 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
It is the policy of the agency to make records available to the public to the greatest extent possible, in keeping with the spirit of the FOIA, while at the same time protecting sensitive information. The following is a list of FOIA exemptions which apply to Government information in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(b):
http://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/~foia/foiaex.html
It looks to me like there is no exemption for visitor logs without a very clever pleading and a friendly judge....
Why don’t we have a look at your bank and tax records... Might be hiding something.
Maybe Bartlett quitting has something to do with this.
While I can not say if the person who posted the article an elected official, I suspect not. There are some negative repercussion of making everything public BUT they are not trusted by many people here anymore.
When you live in the light, you don’t have anything to hide.............
Congressman Billybob
I don’t have a problem with this, especially as it relates to who comes and goes at the private residence.
What next? We put camera’s in the residence, and make them available 24/7/365 via the web?
This is just another front in the "hate Bush", "gotcha Bush" ongoing onslaught and another case where the baby may be thrown out with the bathwater.
The real problem is that the President has squandered all political capital with his devious support of amnesty for illegals. So now, he's being deserted by his former supporters on issues he SHOULD be supported on.....like this one.
I don't believe I'm going out on a limb when I say that his support for the war in Iraq and on terror is atrophying in direct correlation to his immigration obsession.
This spillover to other issues such as the attack on executive confidentiality is one of many unintended consequences of Bush's ill-advised crusade for amnesty. He is hurting this country in so many ways because of his obsession.
He's unwittingly becoming dangerous to many established facets of our political system because he's left himself open to leftist attacks and destruction along with many good things he supports.
Leni
Maybe it’s just so Jeff Gannon can do a few discreet interviews.
“The question it raises is ‘what are these guys hiding?”’ said Lehane, now a Democratic consultant. “They can live with it because they’ve only got a year or so left, but it doesn’t do a lot for public confidence in open government.”
They don’t want us to see all the coordination meetings with National Council of La Raza and other assorted racist, pro amnesty groups.
“Why don’t we have a look at your bank and tax records... Might be hiding something.”
The government is accountable to us.
Not vice versa.
Welcome to the USSA!
Corrupt like Clinton
Incompetent like Carter
LOL! So.... George Soros wants to see the visitor logs?!
Funny how President Bush is getting ready to make all these new rules that future Presidents will enjoy and the problem is that we are not always going to have a Republican President much to our disappointment so why are we changing all these rules now???
Dems on another fishing expedition.
has all the fingerprints of Rep Waxman, who is in cahoots with liberal journalists to manufacture scandal based on whatever he can find.
“Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,”
I believe this is a Soros-funded outfit which has as most of its staffers liberal Democrats.
Are *their* visitor logs Public? :-)
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