Administration asks to keep Cheney logs secret

[CatWoman]

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked an appeals court Wednesday to overrule a federal judge and allow the White House to keep secret any records of visitors to Vice President Dick Cheney's residence and office.

To make the visitor records public would be an "unprecedented intrusion into the daily operations of the vice presidency," the Justice Department argued in a 57-page brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.

The government was responding to an October order, by U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina, to release two years of White House visitor logs to The Washington Post. The newspaper, researching the access lobbyists and others had on the White House, sought Secret Service records for anyone visiting Cheney, his legal counsel, chief spokesman and other top aides and advisers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16194747/

[majorjohn]

1. Why? Was Bin Laden on the Guest's list? n/t

[enid602]

3. Cheney

I suspect either Abramov or Gannon.

[yellowcanine]

2. I would hope so! I have no desire to hear about Deadeye Dick's bowel movements.

[tridim]

4. But it's just fine and dandy to spend millions investigating Clinton's penis

I hate them all.

[The Count]

5. Ummm- no firends at all, Abramoff or the Saudis? Who's hiding in the

Naval Observatory (People's House?). Place your bets. In fact an entertaining poll could be drawn - adding Mary's girlfriends, Dick's hunting victims, Lynn's fantasy sources and of course Dick's alien masters (The Borg?).

[burythehatchet]

6. its not like we pay his salary or anything

[sharp_stick]

7. Meanwhile

according to Ubergruppenfuhrur (sp?) Alberto Goering; Crashcart should have every right to listen in on your phonecalls. Fucking assholes.

[Morgana LaFey]

8. Translation: they could find out too much about our

corrupt ways.

[SoCalDem]

9. What the hell is wrong with me.. Why did i immediately think of this?

[thingfisher]

10. Guess we will just have to wait for the criminal charges

before we can get a look at those logs. What a can of worms that might be!