Judge orders White House visitor logs released in 20 days

[MonkeyFunk]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House must release its visitor logs and cannot hide behind a shield of privilege, a federal judge ruled Monday. The Bush administration has resisted public disclosure while it fights a lawsuit over alleged political influence by conservative Christian leaders.


The Bush administration has been fighting the release of White House visitor logs.

U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth concluded the information is part of the public record and is subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act as "agency records."

"Because the Secret Service creates, uses and relies on, and stores visitor records, they are under its control," said Lamberth.

He ordered the Secret Service to produce records within 20 days.

more at:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/17/visitor.logs/index.html

[Kutjara]

1. Some poor slob's gonna be working all over Christmas...

...getting that can of worms sanitized in time.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Jeff Gannon

How many overnights?

[napi21]

3. Anybody know if that's days or business days? I ask because

if it's days, and I counted right, it would be the day before the NH Primary.

[LakeSamish706]

4. Damn this will be a popcorn moment.... I wonder if they have any kind of...

appeal process to delay/stall?

:popcorn:

[TahitiNut]

5. yeah. sure. when pigs fly.

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell a district court judge is going to tell them what to do. Those records won't see the light of day for a year or more, if then.

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[Kadie]

7. Happy New Year!!!

:party:

Hopefully they will produce the records. Hopefully, the records still exist.

Please, please, please...

[C_U_L8R]

8. That's a lot of un-shredding they gotta do

oops

[malaise]

10. Kick and recomend n/t

[Franc_Lee]

11. Bush will issue a statement claiming executive privilidge, whether it's legal or not

[MonkeyFunk]

13. Did you bother to read the article?

The judge rejected a claim of executive privilege.

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. Bushco will release them the same day they release the court-ordered...

Abu Ghraib pictures.