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Trump Won't Disclose White House Visitor Logs - Option Sought By Obama, Approved By Merrick Garland
U.S. News & World Report ^ | April 14, 2017

Posted on 04/14/2017 12:32:09 PM PDT by deplorableindc

President Donald Trump's White House won't be publishing visitor logs, officials announced on Friday afternoon.

The decision makes use of an anti-transparency ruling sought by the Obama administration and written in 2013 by Judge Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge later nominated unsuccessfully to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.

Transparency advocates say Garland bent over backwards to overturn a lower-court ruling on visitor log access and expressed concern at the time about how the finding would be used by future administrations.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: merrickgarland; transparency
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1 posted on 04/14/2017 12:32:09 PM PDT by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

I hope this is just shoving it in their faces...

Obama wanted this, Garland bent over backwards to give it to him, so F them if they want the logs now...


2 posted on 04/14/2017 12:36:22 PM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF OBAMACARE REPEAL THAT IS WORSE THAN KEEPING IT ONE MORE DAY***)
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To: deplorableindc

winning some more....


3 posted on 04/14/2017 12:36:38 PM PDT by georgiegirl (Count me in the half that's in the Deplorable Basket)
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To: Mr. K

Trump should disclosed THE ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF’s Visitor Log Books to the public, ALL OF THEM ... from the time that Kenyan Turd took office through Obama’s last day in office.


4 posted on 04/14/2017 12:39:52 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: deplorableindc

It is none of the public’s business who visits the White House.


5 posted on 04/14/2017 12:43:35 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: deplorableindc
Obama submitted the logs....but lotsa black marks....

in other words...you see only what Obama wanted you to see.

6 posted on 04/14/2017 12:43:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: deplorableindc

I don't think USN likes Judge Garland!"


7 posted on 04/14/2017 12:43:51 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: deplorableindc

This is interesting. Explains why he picked Garland.

I think visitors should be public knowledge (with national security exceptions).

It’s our house. We own it and the President is our employee.


8 posted on 04/14/2017 12:46:36 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: deplorableindc

http://gawker.com/5352856/obamas-transparency-dodge-on-the-white-house-visitors-logs


9 posted on 04/14/2017 12:47:15 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Timpanagos1

“It is none of the public’s business who visits the White House.”

That’s a joke, right?


10 posted on 04/14/2017 12:47:22 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Mr. K

:-)


11 posted on 04/14/2017 12:49:45 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: ifinnegan

Not at all.

Why should President Trump have to disclose the names of all people that visit the White House?

What right do we have to know all that information?


12 posted on 04/14/2017 12:50:45 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: deplorableindc

It’s a sure thing that the name Robert Creamer will not be on future visitor logs.


13 posted on 04/14/2017 12:51:12 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialists is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: deplorableindc
They are trying to hide the visits by these two (caught on camera)..


14 posted on 04/14/2017 12:54:39 PM PDT by Paradox ("Donald Trump", the biggest Strawman ever created.)
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To: ifinnegan

The times in which we live make it clear that anyone whose name would be revealed, would become the target of Soros paid minions.

BLM, thugs in black outfits with long clubs, knock out game enthusiasts, street rioters..., I’m not convinced this is a baseless desire for our side.


15 posted on 04/14/2017 1:16:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: ifinnegan
“It is none of the public’s business who visits the White House.”

That’s a joke, right?

Prior to the printing of this story by the MSM, I'm sure you have been going to bed each night after Trump was inaugurated wondering just who in the heck has been signing the White House guest log.....

It's amazing the amount of crap that's being thrown on the side of the skyscraper (It takes a skyscraper to contain all the crap being thrown) that appears to be sticking thus creating all the unnecessary angst that people on our side of the aisle are getting their undies in a wedge.........

Harriet: "Who we going after today?"

Larry: "I'm not sure"

Harriet: "Then why are we going after him?"

Larry: "Didn't you read that article in the New York Times? Didn't you see what CNN said about him?"

Harriet: "Oh, OK......Could you please relight my torch?"


16 posted on 04/14/2017 1:17:00 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: SubMareener

He got those eyes like that Media Matter guy, has.


17 posted on 04/14/2017 1:27:07 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: deplorableindc

Obama had his Muslim brotherhood buddies over lots of times


18 posted on 04/14/2017 1:51:42 PM PDT by longsufferingjetsfan
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To: Mr. K
I love it when precedents the Dems set get used against them.

Wait until the Dems find out that its now totally legal to use the NSA to spy on political opponents, and that's its totally legal to use the IRS as a weapon against political enemies.

Trump should make use of every "tool" Obama made legal.. and then make them illegal again on his way out of office at the end of his presidency.

19 posted on 04/14/2017 1:59:51 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: deplorableindc

The single reason that I am half-way OK with this is because of the lunacy and attacks and threats, etc. that anyone who goes within a half mile of President Trump will experience.


20 posted on 04/14/2017 4:34:24 PM PDT by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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