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Trump to discontinue Obama policy of voluntarily releasing White House visitor logs

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Dalek

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Trump to discontinue Obama policy of voluntarily releasing White House visitor logs


The Trump administration announced Friday that it would discontinue former president Barack Obama's policy of voluntarily disclosing the names of most visitors to the White House complex, citing “grave national security risks and privacy concerns.”

Instead, the Trump administration said it would release information only under far more limited circumstances: for those visiting components of the White House classified under the law as separate agencies, such as the Office of Management and Budget. Under the new policy, it will be up to the White House to decide whether to release names of visitors coming to meet with the president, vice president and their senior staff.

The Trump administration was sued in federal court earlier this week by a coalition of watchdog groups in a bid to compel the release of records made public under Obama, which were published on a White House-maintained Web page.

Since Trump took office in January, the page where the visitor logs had been publicly available has gone dark, and Trump administration officials said Friday that they will no longer maintain it, a move that the White House said would save taxpayers $70,000 by 2020.
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Ri'Orius

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National security is important. If Obama had kept his logs under wraps, those lost in the Bowling Green Massacre would still be alive today.
 
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Lkr

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Soka said:
He fired one minimum wage employee that would sit at a desk and sign everyone in, is my guess. $11.50/hr = ~$23,000/yr = ~$69,000/3 years.
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ah that actually makes sense. can't cut costs by just having a computer that people check in on when they get to the white house though since Trump doesn't even understand email

is minimum wage in D.C. $11.50? sounds p nice but cost of living is so high there that that is probably worse than $8/hr where i live
 
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RPGCrazied

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Yikes. Doing this when he is being investigated by 3 groups including the FBI. This doesn't look good. But when does it when concerning this man.
 
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Nafai1123

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Will probably spend more taxpayer money in court fighting the watch dog groups than they did paying that minimum wage intern.
 
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studyguy

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Lkr said:
ah that actually makes sense. can't cut costs by just having a computer that people check in on when they get to the white house though since Trump doesn't even understand email

is minimum wage in D.C. $11.50? sounds p nice but cost of living is so high there that that is probably worse than $8/hr where i live
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11.50 is the current DC minimum since July last year iirc.
 
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Stinkles

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Btw they are still being logged by law and are available through the freedom of information act so even the $70k savings is probably a lie. So here's what he's achieved:

1. Act suspicious
2. Make everyone who visits appear suspicious
3. Make investigators examine those logs more thoroughly
4. Dogpile information on his own future trial
 
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Exile20

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The repubs could give two fucks how they look to the public.

They know they are hypocrites and they celebrate it.
 
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thekonamicode

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Soka said:
He fired one minimum wage employee that would sit at a desk and sign everyone in, is my guess. $11.50/hr = ~$23,000/yr = ~$69,000/3 years.
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Somebody is still keeping the log, they just won't disclose them. The logs can be accessed five years after the end of this disaster of an administration.
 
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Sciz

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Stinkles said:
Btw they are still being logged by law and are available through the freedom of information act so even the $70k savings is probably a lie.
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Exactly what I was just about to ask, thanks.

Can't wait for the inevitable furious tweet when someone tells him the FOIA exists.
 
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Knuckle Sandwich

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70 grand to see who goes to the white house? Unacceptable.

Millions and millions to pay for Trump's weekly vacations to his shitty resort? Just dandy.
 
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Dan

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Stinkles said:
Btw they are still being logged by law and are available through the freedom of information act so even the $70k savings is probably a lie. So here's what he's achieved:

1. Act suspicious
2. Make everyone who visits appear suspicious
3. Make investigators examine those logs more thoroughly
4. Dogpile information on his own future trial
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Someone do the math in a couple years and figure out if the additional manhours spent fulfilling FOIA requests surpasses the alleged $70k savings from not having the logs public in the first place.
 
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Brandon F

Well congratulations! You got yourself caught!
Soka said:
He fired one minimum wage employee that would sit at a desk and sign everyone in, is my guess. $11.50/hr = ~$23,000/yr = ~$69,000/3 years.
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Lkr said:
ah that actually makes sense. can't cut costs by just having a computer that people check in on when they get to the white house though since Trump doesn't even understand email

is minimum wage in D.C. $11.50? sounds p nice but cost of living is so high there that that is probably worse than $8/hr where i live
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Not necesarily. Visitors still must sign in by law for obvious security purposes(they can't just stop logging people that come to the WH entirely!).

It's the webpage that voluntarily releases that data to the public that has gone dark and will no longer be updated. Trump still must release that data under court of law, but that requires extra hurdles, time, and resources. Obama released that info to the public voluntarily on the WH website. He had nothing to hide and wanted the public aware of his daily meetings.

It's so blatant how shady and corrupt this admin is. And they have the gall to talk shit about Obama?
 
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