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In the past year, lawyers for President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney directed the Secret Service to maintain the confidentiality of visitor logs, declaring them to be presidential records. The decision made the logs exempt from a law requiring their disclosure to whoever asks to see them.

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Aidenag
June 1, 2007, 9:02 p.m.
This really has me worried, they pulled this tactic when the Jack Abramoff scandal broke, and they refused to release logs of his visits to Bush and Cheney.
Before that it was used for the 2001 energy meeting that cheney held, that is rumored to of had Enron Executives at it. just a short few months before the Scandal broke, and Energy prices around the country went into turmoil.
The entire reason the Presidential Records Act was created in 1978 was to not allow the Executive branch to do things like this. Heck, the law was put in place solely to not allow another Nixon type scandal to occur.
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jordan11
June 1, 2007, 9:22 p.m.

Don't people realize that they can lose this country? What will it take to get them off their @$$es? We can't have a government that operates in secrecy, and assure they aren't breaking our laws! Do people really believe that it's not possible to lose their freedoms? I just don't know what to say any more.
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jordan11
June 1, 2007, 11:16 p.m.
A little history on secrecy: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm