An editorial in today's San Antonio Express-News [1]advises the Bush administration to release the visitor records that CREW is requesting.  We concur:

The presidency is a powerful position, the most powerful in the world, powerful enough to withstand the disclosure of a visitors list.

President Bush would have you think otherwise.

President Bush is wrong.

White House lawyers, responding to a federal judge who had ordered the release of the list last year, contend the disclosure would erode the power of the office — a specious argument that merely enhances the view of this administration as closed and secretive.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group seeking the list, does not want a transcript of the conversations between these visitors and the president and vice president.

If it did, the White House might have a case; instead, the group merely wants the list to determine how often prominent religious conservatives visited both the White House and the vice presidential residence.