Posted on 08/30/2013 4:25:29 PM PDT by Nachum
President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House, according to a decision of the federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia made public Friday.
The case was brought by Judicial Watch, the government watchdog nonprofit that has been fighting a long legal battle seeking to force release of the White House visitor logs as public records under the Freedom of Information Act.
But in a decision that is drawing intense criticism from across the ideological spectrum, the circuit court said the president has a "constitutional perogative" not to tell the American people who he or his staff meets with in the White House.
The court said the president has such a prerogative because he is not covered by the FOIA and because of "special policy considerations" that allow exemption of visitor logs from classification as agency records subject to release under the public records law.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
As they say to us underlings...
If you don’t have anything to hide.
well, it ain’t like it’s OUR house, or anything...
Most transparent ... most open administration ...
All uh.....Transparent and stuff
Welcome to the USSR.
Wow, can you imagine Perry or Kasich trying that?
Disclosure of WH Visitor Logs
Looks like a Dictatorship to me..
and America takes another one in the........
So much for it being “ The People’s House”.
It’s Baracks Crib now.
Step by step, Obama is becoming a king with a divine right to an imperial Presidency because there is no effective opposition.
What do we know about this judge?
Before: GARLAND, Chief Judge, and SENTELLE and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judges.
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GARLAND
Hell, no telling what type of vermin has been rolling in and out of there, for that matter.
BUMP your every word.
Every day in every way our government gets further and further out of control.
Add it all up...
- each one of us can be arrested and held indefinately without legal council if the WH sees you as a “threat”
- each one of us is a piece of meat owned by the IRS and the insurance industry
- each one of us is compelled by force to subsidize and educate 1/10’th of the population of Mexico who are here illegally
- each one of us who is anglo and is involved in an altercation with a negro risks having the AG side with the other party based on race despite any evidence or facts
- each one of us must allow govt agents disguised as teachers to speak to our children in a manner that if done in a park would have that person arrested for sexual misconduct towards a minor
- each one of us has our email, electronic communications, phone records etc subject to govt scrutiny in violation of the constitution
- and, drum roll please, none of us has the right to know who visits the WH
And why is this lying bastard exempt from FOIA?
Behold the Imperial Presidency!!
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