Posted on 04/13/2011 9:21:46 AM PDT by Mozilla
Andrew Breitbart's longstanding gripe that the White House's voluntary disclosure of lists of names of visitors is, at best, faux transparency gets some backup from the Center for Public Integrity, in this very good POLITICO story:
[T]he logs are missing the names of thousands of other visitors to the White House, including lobbyists, government employees, campaign donors, policy experts and friends of the first family, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.
The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database.
Yet the Center’s analysis shows that the logs routinely omit or cloud key details about the identity of visitors, whom they met with and the nature of their visits. The logs even include the names of people who never showed up. These are critical gaps that raise doubts about the records’ historical accuracy and utility in helping the public understand White House operations, from social events to meetings on key policy debates.
Another practice calling into question the veracity of the logs: Junior White House staff members routinely list themselves as the “visitee,” or person being visited, when in fact the visitor has arrived to see someone higher up the chain of command.
The practice appears to apply to the commander in chief in some instances.
Reggie Love is recorded as receiving nearly 300 visits in the West Wing of the White House. Love is Obama’s personal assistant, the young aide who is constantly at the president’s side. Celebrities like NBA star Kobe Bryant and some Obama friends are listed as visitors to Love.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Hmmmmmmmm, similar to his long form BC!!!!
Obama is a lying sack of crap.
Who is surprised?
Obamma couldn't pass a background check to stack bricks at the Home Depot Garden Center.
When do we get a Secret Service tell all?
Doesn’t want folks to know about the White house mosque
I’ll bet all Presidents have visitors that aren’t entered into the visitor log.
I think you’re onto something. They don’t want people to know about RUGS ARE US delivering prayer rugs.
Yeah, but they weren't "the most transparent administration in the history of the U.S.," as was bragged about ad nauseum.
Has anyone noticed a stream of unusual looking people entering the back door of the WH just after hearing a loud annoying noise? /s
You know...up through 1830s...just about anyone could show up at the White House. No one kept records. No one cared. Half the time...the President was sitting around and wouldn’t have minded a 15-minute conversation on fox hunting or the best lure to use for catfish.
LOL!
Well, let’s just have some idiot give him a transparency award or something. Oh, wait...
do I really have to say it???
MMM mmm mmmmm
Thought they were all meeting at a building across the street so their names would NOT appear on the registry.
Didn’t Bill Clinton take advantage of a Guard Shack that had a tunnel to the Oval Office to ferry his girlfriends in and out?
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