Daylight, as Obama said, is the best way for a government to run. And it all begins "at home" so to speak. Welcome to the Change! Yes We Can!!

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House
Taking Bush's position, administration denies msnbc.com request for logs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31373407/ns/politics-white_house/

Sounds trivial to me compared to the lack of transparency we've seen from the retarded right.

More fourth grade attacks on Obama? Do you really think Obama looks down the list of visitors everyday to the White House and decides which visitors can come in. That would be thousands of names.

DUMBASS, the Secret Service does that!

The point was, the WH doesn't want to release names of visitors (which was decried loudly by the left when Dick Cheney met with oil company execs). The visitor list is kept and maintained by the Secret Service for their records, but the WH has claimed that they are Presidential documents and subject to Executive Privilege so they don't have to be released. This is not the only place where Obama and the administration have sided with Bush administration policies - so where is all the outrage?

The difference between this situation and the one with Bush is that investigators were trying to figure out if Karl Rove met with Jack Abramoff, a convicted criminal.

No - those records were released. The ones not released were the ones with religious leaders (and I think also the previous issues with oil executives meeting with Cheney) - that is where this current issue stems from.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-06-16-white-house_N.htm

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Four months later, Vice President Dick Cheney's office told the Secret Service in a letter that visitor records for the vice president's personal residence "are and shall remain subject to the exclusive ownership, custody and control" of the Office of the Vice President. The controversy over Cheney involved visits by a number of conservative religious leaders to the vice president's residence.