{"id":191850,"date":"2009-06-16T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/16\/its-like-dick-cheney-in-drag\/"},"modified":"2009-06-16T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T01:37:00","slug":"its-like-dick-cheney-in-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/16\/its-like-dick-cheney-in-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Like Dick Cheney in Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the Obama administration, and they are <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/06\/miers_testifies_in_us_attorneys_probe_--_when_will.php\">refusing to release visitor logs to the press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn&#8217;t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite President Barack Obama&#8217;s pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com&#8217;s request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**sigh**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, the Obama administration, and they are refusing to release visitor logs to the press: The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn&#8217;t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions. Despite President Barack Obama&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secrecy","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}