COURT CLAIMS NO JURISDICTION TO STOP SECRET SERVICE FROM DESTROYING VISITOR RECORDS

17 Dec 2007 // Today, the court in CREW v. Dep't of Homeland Security dismissed one of CREW’s four claims in a lawsuit seeking access to White House visitor records of Jack Abramoff and his associates. CREW also had asked the court to declare that the Secret Service could not destroy its White House visitor records once it had transferred copies to the White House. The court found that although CREW had been injured in the past by this practice, it could not say, on the record before it, that CREW would be injured by the practice in the future. In addition, the court ruled that it does not have jurisdiction to order the Secret Service to stop destroying or removing records and to retrieve from the White House records that had already been transferred.