Leahy asks Secret Service about secret White House visitor logs

[sabra]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2007/01/10/leahy_asks_secret_service_about_secret_white_house_visitor_logs/

Leahy asks Secret Service about secret White House visitor logs

WASHINGTON --Sen. Patrick Leahy asked the Secret Service on Wednesday why the agency signed an agreement with the Bush administration to keep White House visitors logs secret.

In a letter to Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, Leahy said he was disappointed to hear about the agreement and sought an explanation "for this change in policy."

Signed last May 17 in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, the memorandum of understanding says the logs are "at all times presidential records; are not federal records; and are not the records of an agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act."

Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, noted that White House visitor logs have been reviewed in the past and have played prominent roles in investigations of prior administrations.

"I have always respected the work of the Secret Service and viewed it as a nonpartisan law enforcement agency," the Vermont Democrat wrote.

[ruiner4u]

1. Great...the Chimperor and his pretorian guard.. n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. He hiding something. There isn't any other explanation.

[San Diego]

5. He doesn't want us to see that his boyfriend Jimmy Jeff was there

far too many times and way too late at night for them to be "official business."

[orleans]

6. we already saw that. that was out already. maybe fuckhead figures

we all have a short memory--but randi talks about it every now and then

[Virginian]

3. Maybe if we looked at the 2001 logs,

we might find the Anthrax mailer.

[pacalo]

4. "Signed last May 17 in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal"...

How obvious can they possibly get?

Impeach NOW.

[rodeodance]

7. "presidental records"?? --umm. He forgets he works for US

[RedEarth]

8. KR........

[RedEarth]

9. KR........