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White House Keeps Visitor Logs Locked Up

Submitted by Chip on Wed, 2009-06-17 00:23.

White House Keeps Visitor Logs Locked Up
Posted by Mark Knoller | CBS

Despite President Barack Obama's oft-stated commitment to government openness and transparency, he's not ready to tell us who gets into the White House to meet with him.

Some meetings will be secret, said spokesman Robert Gibbs, telling reporters that for the moment, the Obama White House is following the lead of its predecessor and resisting requests from the media and others for visitors' logs.

"I think there are obviously occasions on which the president is going to meet privately with advisers on topics that are of great national importance," said Gibbs, defending the arguments made by the Bush-Cheney Administration.

As a candidate last year, Mr. Obama decried his predecessor for running "the most secretive administration maybe in our history." Read more.

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Only the Messanger has changed

Submitted by pepawjoe on Wed, 2009-06-17 14:24.

It appears at very important times, that maybe all we did in November was to send a different messanger to the White House.
The real leaders of our government remains the same. We the People have no say or input into who is actually in that unknown cartel.

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