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Court Rules WH Not Public, Therefore Not Subject To Disclosure Requests

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This is pretty bad; it’s always been generally assumed that these were public. It is easy to understand that some visitors might be classified. The answer is simply to black out their names. This ruling means that they can hide whoever is visiting and thereby, what is actually happening.

It is our house they are visiting, yet we are not allowed to know who goes in it, and we are not even allowed to visit it. Unreal…

Via WFB:

White House visitor logs are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal judge ruled Friday, blocking the public from reviewing the records.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in a unanimous decision in Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service that visitor logs for the office of the president are not agency records and therefore not subject to FOIA requests.

Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, originally sued the Secret Service in 2009 after the agency refused to turn over seven months of visitor logs from the White House.

Judge Merrick Garland Thursday that making the logs public record could “substantially affect the president’s ability to meet confidentially with foreign leaders, agency officials, or members of the public. And that could render FOIA a potentially serious congressional intrusion into the conduct of the president’s daily operations.”

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said Friday’s ruling keeps the public in the dark and the government unaccountable.

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