Who has called on Obama's White House »
Posted By Klarissa 3 months ago in NewsThose visitors will be revealed only if a member of the public requests specific names to be checked against the visitor logs.
It's a guessing game. The White House rules don't allow you to ask for "everyone who visited on Feb. 3," or "anyone who visited green jobs czar Van Jones," but you can ask for all visits by specific people, whether former Sen. Tom Daschle or New York Times columnist David Brooks or an Obama campaign donor from your hometown.
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Klarissa3 months ago
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An outstanding article by MSNBC
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Although President Barack Obama has announced that he will make public the names of most visitors to the White House, there's a catch.
Under the new White House policy, names of visitors during the first eight months of the administration are not being released wholesale.
Those visitors will be revealed only if a member of the public requests specific names to be checked against the visitor logs.
The Obama administration on Wednesday set up an online form for requesting information on visitors during the period from Jan. 20 through Sept. 15.
If you use the form to request visitor information, please help msnbc.com follow up by letting us know what records you requested, and what answer, if any, you receive from the White House. Just send an e-mail with that information -
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Klarissa3 months ago
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within the article:
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If you want to make a request that goes beyond what's possible using the White House form — such as a request for all visitors to a certain official —you can use a fill-in-the-blanks FOIA request that we've prepared. Here's a Microsoft Word version of the letter, and another plain-text version that you could paste into any word processor." -
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Klarissa3 months ago
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"Information on visitors from Jan. 20 through Sept. 15 "will not be subject to the voluntary disclosure policy." Instead, the White House will respond voluntarily to individual requests, "but only if the requests are reasonable, narrow and specific (e.g., requests that list specific possible visitors)."
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If you need help with names of lobbyists or campaign donors to check in the White House records, here are two resources:
the Federal Election Commission's database of campaign contributors,
and a database of Washington lobbyists from the Center for Responsive Politics.
A separate request by msnbc.com remains open. The news organization requested the names of all visitors to the Obama White House beginning with Inauguration Day. That request is pending, and msnbc.com has filed an administrative appeal with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service. -
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Wolfie20073 months ago
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k9kssr3 months ago
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FTA: "Those visitors will be revealed only if a member of the public requests specific names to be checked against the visitor logs. "
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Reminds me of that game we played as kids....."is it bigger than a breadbox, is it animal, vegetable or mineral".....lol
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Klarissa3 months ago
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"Barack Obama promised when he sought the presidency to usher in a new era of openness and transparency.
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"We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies," candidate Obama declared at a Pennsylvania campaign stop two months before the 2008 election.
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JoeModerate3 months ago
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An interesting WH fallback position from this one:
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