Trump administration withholds almost all Mar-a-Lago visitor logs
Source: CNN
Updated 1:10 PM ET, Fri September 15, 2017
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The Trump administration turned over a list of only 22 names of foreign dignitaries and staffers related to the Japanese prime minister's February trip.
Earlier this summer a federal judge in New York ordered Secret Service to turn over all records for Mar-a-Lago.
(CNN)For weeks, ethics watchdog groups had a countdown clock on Twitter promising the public its first glimpse at who has been visiting President Donald Trump's "Winter White House" at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and two open government groups, the National Security Archive and the Knight First Amendment Institute, filed suit against the Trump administration back in April seeking visitor logs for the White House, Trump Tower in New York, and Mar-a-Lago after the Department of Homeland Security refused to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests.
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In a cover letter transmitting the 22 names to CREW on Friday, the Justice Department said that the remaining records would be withheld.................................
"After waiting months for a response to our request for comprehensive visitor logs from the President's multiple visits to Mar-a-Lago and having the government ask for a last-minute extension, today we received 22 names from the Japanese Prime Minister's visit to Mar-a-Lago and nothing else," said CREW's executive director, Noah Bookbinder, in a statement. "The government seriously misrepresented their intentions to both us and the court. This was spitting in the eye of transparency. We will be fighting this in court."................................
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That guy will have everything before this is over.
