Washington – The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
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Despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com’s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.
CREW says it will file a lawsuit Tuesday against the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service.
Good morning Obama!!! The more you will learn from your prior leaders the of a leader you will be.
I thought President Obama wanted to do things like Pres. Lincoln, well Lincoln allowed some people to come to the White House. Lately, you have to be a VIP in order to go to the White House or make rservations weeks or months ahead of time.If you know your State Senator you might be able to get in! But otherwise forget it. We were ther in1981, before all the security checks and we walked through everything, now you can’t get in for beans!!
this amatuer president is starting to realize that talk is cheap
and for the people who wanted change, well the only change you are going to get is the president changing his promises one by one.
at the a lot of things obama doing on security like this on iraq on the photos is like bush his whole campaign was how bad bush was and hes gonna be more open blah blah blah. he should apologize to Bush. Obama a fraud.
Let us all recognize another campaign promise that he failed to keep. His pledge of transparency was to keep his White House above suspicion. I guess he has what to hide. This new failure needs to added to the list of unkept promises.
Obama has let Al Sharpton into the White House…come on how much lower can the man go than that.