White House uses secret memo to fight court order --AP

[Demeter]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/05/white.house.visitors.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.

The Bush administration did not reveal the existence of the memorandum of understanding until last fall.

The White House is using it to deal with a legal problem on a separate front, a ruling by a federal judge ordering the production of Secret Service logs identifying visitors to the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

In a federal appeals court filing three weeks ago, the administration's lawyers used the memo in a legal argument aimed at overturning the judge's ruling. The Washington Post is suing for access to the Secret Service logs.

[Captain Hilts]

1. So, they squeal on Clinton and conspire with Bush? nt

[Benhurst]

2. The SS has been living up to its name ever since the coup.

Oh, wait. That was another SS.

Oh, well. Same difference.

[LiberalFighter]

3. If they rule that way then everything from SS logs during Clinton

are null and void!

Gee how would Kenneth Starr proceed?

[LiberalFighter]

4. If they can't subpoena the SS logs... how about having SS testifying

Did they force SS to testify during Whitewater Investigation?

[peacetalksforall]

5. We should conduct a movement the way the right wing did with

Clinton.

They conducted a ground swell of mantras that were like the demands of viewers at a ball game. It would start on one day and go on for weeks, then it would change slightly, and then again.

I documented it once - have to find it. It went like this...

President Clinton JUST COME FORWARD.
then
President Clinton JUST ADMIT IT
then
Prseident Clinton JUST APOLOGIZE

This mostly went on in the months/years before the end. The face and voice that stands out the most for me was Arainna Huffington - but it came from every operative who had facetime on tv.

We need to do it to them.

I hope this takeover of the SS is blatant obstruction of justice.

If we protest too much, they may privatize the SS.