Hate to sound like a broken record here at Murphy's Law Library Blog, but it seems that every day brings another disappointment in the realm of government transparency. Today's downer comes in the form of yet another extension of Bush-era policies, this time dealing with public access to information about visitors to the White House. The White House claims that the visitors log maintained by the Secret Service qualifies as presidential records. Presidential records are exempt from FOIA. The exemption from FOIA means that the American people have no way of finding out who is in Obama's ear. That's troubling. MSNBC has a nice article on this issue here.
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