Want to find out who's visited the White House? Too bad... you can't

[renate]

The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

The Bush administration did not reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall.

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In the past, Secret Service logs have revealed the comings and goings of various White House visitors, including Monica Lewinsky and Clinton campaign donor Denise Rich, the wife of fugitive financier Marc Rich, who received a pardon in the closing hours of the Clinton administration.

The memo last spring was signed by the White House and Secret Service the day after a Washington-based group asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Secret Service in a dispute over White House visitor logs for Abramoff.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/05/white.house.visitors.ap/index.html

As always with this outfit, what's sauce for the Democratic goose isn't sauce for the Republican gander.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Hmmm, what do they have to hide?

EVERYTHING!!!!

[Turbineguy]

2. Yeah, OK

but if I'd visited the Whitehouse in the last six years I wouldn't want any of you to find out!

And if you were to find out, say via CNN, I would have asked the moderators to remove all traces of my ever having been a DU'er before my visit!