Biden rejects Trump's attempt to shield White House visitor logs, including for day of January 6

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Biden rejects Trump's attempt to shield White House visitor logs, including for day of January 6 attack

(CNN)President Joe Biden has rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to shield White House visitor logs from the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including appointments for individuals granted entry to the White House complex that day.

In a letter to the National Archives, White House counsel Dana Remus wrote Biden has determined that asserting executive privilege "is not in the best interests of the United States, and therefore is not justified, as to these records and portions of records." The New York Times was first to report on Biden's decision.

The National Archives provided these documents to the current White House for review in late January, and they include "visitor logs showing appointment information for individuals who were processed to enter the White House complex, including on January 6, 2021."

Remus explained the administration's decision by noting that, while Trump decided to block the visitor logs from public view on claims about national security, the Biden administration "voluntarily discloses such visitor logs on a monthly basis," with some exceptions.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-january-6-white-house-visitor-logs/index.html

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1. I'd be surprised if 100% of "visitors" signed in on January 6, 2021.

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2. I'd be surprised if tfg hasn't already eaten them...or flushed them..or both.

[usaf-vet]

11. "Pica" for those who know this term. You are either a former printer or an eating specialist.

Xylophagia is a condition involving the consumption of paper and a form of eating disorder known as pica. People who suffer from this eating disorder usually consume substances like paper, pencils, tree bark, or other items made of wood.

There's no single cause of pica. In some cases, a deficiency in iron, zinc, or another nutrient may be associated with pica. For example, anemia, usually from iron [GOLD?] deficiency. His bankers know Trump is, in this case, a "paper tiger" or broke in this case.

A pica is a typesetting unit of measurement commonly used for measuring lines of type. One pica equals 12 points, and there are 6 picas to an inch. Many digital graphic designers use inches as the measurement of choice in their work, but picas and points still have plenty of followers among typographers, typesetters, and commercial printers.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. eaten then flushed?? Yew.

[plimsoll]

14. I'm sure it isn't 100%

It sure seems like plenty of them thought they’d pull this off, and wanted to be counted down as the founders of the glorious kakistocacy they were about to birth.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. May offer insight to treason kick.

Given in the hopes of speeding the mother of all frog marches.

[Lovie777]

4. Or hidden them at somebody else's abode . . ..

I don't remember in recent times of any President denying to show or produce visitor's records.

[UpInArms]

6. GWB hid his

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1627051,00.html

Vice President Dick Cheney, whose penchant for secrecy is well known, has eliminated any public record of his guests and their visits. His office has directed the U.S. Secret Service to turn over the visitor logs so they can be treated in effect as classified documents. No copies can be kept. According to declarations filed May 25 in a lawsuit, the directive was initiated in 2001 and quietly reiterated nine months ago as the Washington Post and a public interest group were trying to track appearances by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

It is not for social niceties that Cheney claims "exclusive control" over the names of his guests. The man who could often be found only in "undisclosed locations" after 9/11 likes to conduct public business in private. He fought off the General Accounting Office when it sought the names of oil, coal and utility lobbyists with whom Cheney had met privately to discuss the energy policy that he was fashioning for the Bush Administration — a practice ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court.

The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is trying to pry open Cheney's hidden world in a lawsuit seeking Secret Service records of visitors to the White House and vice presidential residence. The group's chief counsel, Anne Weismann, told TIME that such logs would help illuminate the kind of outsiders who influence national policy.

Since Freedom of information laws do not apply to the White House, Cheney's office had the logs turned over to the White House every month, thus protecting them under the Presidential Records Act. A vice presidential aide argued in a court filing last week that the guest lists should remain off-limits because they could reveal "sensitive information regarding the inner workings and deliberations" of Cheney's office and provide a "roadmap" to his decision-making.

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5. I wonder why Biden held them this long. Maybe just for a tease?

[wnylib]

10. Or maybe because they were not

requested since the committee's investigation was not at a point where the log entries would be significant until now. Before this, we did not have a context for evaluating the significance of visitors. Now we do.

[lamp_shade]

12. Aha... thanks.

[Kingofalldems]

7. Kick this one for Trump's secret pals.

[malaise]

8. Can we just lock up this criminal

Slobfather

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9. It's maddening.

[malaise]

16. Gives this more meaning - Biden andPelosi were right

And so was Pelosi

[Mz Pip]

15. How about the day before

Those logs would show if tours were gic, by who and who was participating.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. This was the correct decision by Joe Biden

Link to tweet