{"id":4256,"date":"2007-12-17T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2017-11-10T23:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T05:08:41","slug":"white-house-logs-are-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/white-house-logs-are-public\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Logs Are Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/bush.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Matt Apuzzo, AP<\/p>\n<p>White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws and let them keep their guests a secret.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is a blow to the Bush administration, which has fought the release of records showing visits by prominent religious conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor records are created by the Secret Service, which is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But the Bush administration has ordered the data turned over to the White House, where they are treated as presidential records outside the scope of the public records law.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Apuzzo, AP White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws and let them keep their guests a secret. 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