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Bush admin. to appeal visitor records decision

Not a big surprise given the herculean efforts and elaborate scheming undertaken by the Bush administration to foster secrecy.  There will be an appeal of the decision requiring the Bush administration to make public its visitor records.  We're supposed to receive the records within 20 days of the decision, but they've asked the judge to stay that, too:

The Bush administration asked a federal judge Thursday not to force the release of White House visitor logs until it can appeal a ruling that the documents are public.

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth rejected the government's secrecy arguments and ordered the Secret Service to turn over the records to a liberal watchdog group that sought them through a public records.

The logs being sought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington relate to White House visits regarding nine conservative religious commentators, including James Dobson, Gary Bauer and Jerry Falwell.

 

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