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Re: Biden orders Trump White House visitor logs to be turned over to Jan. 6 committee

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Rudy Canoza <notgenx33@gmail.com> wrote in
news:o89PJ.42189$Tr18.10715@fx42.iad: 

> By John Wagner and Sean Sullivan
> 
> Today at 7:43 a.m. EST | Updated today at 10:33 a.m. EST
> 
> President Biden has ordered visitor logs from the White House during
> President Donald Trumpā€™s tenure to be turned over to the House
> select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S.
> Capitol. 

Remember when Obama refused to turn over his logs?

Obama White House visitor logs riddled with holes

Key findings: White House visitor logs
Obama White House is the first to ever release visitor logs but the 
records are riddled with weaknesses.

Of 50,000 visitors logged in to see President Obama, most were attending 
600-plus social events that drew hundreds or thousands of people.
Two-thirds of the visitors in the database were on White House group 
tours.

Junior aides often escorted VIP visitors, masking the real White House 
visitee.

A foot of snow couldn’t keep Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jennifer Hudson and 
other celebrities away from a star-studded celebration of civil rights era 
music hosted by President Barack Obama and the First Lady at the White 
House on Feb. 9, 2010.

Dylan’s haunting rendition of “The Times They are A-Changin” was a 
highlight of the dazzling evening. The digitally friendly White House even 
posted the video of his performance on its website.

But you won’t find Dylan (or Robert Zimmerman, his birth name) listed in 
the White House visitor logs — the official record of who comes to call at 
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, maintained by the Secret Service.

Ditto Joan Baez.

The logs are similarly incomplete for thousands of other visitors to the 
White House, including lobbyists, government employees, campaign donors, 
policy experts, and friends of the first family, according to an 
investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.

The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 
records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a 
searchable database.

Yet the Center’s analysis shows that the logs routinely omit or cloud key 
details about the identity of visitors, who they met with, the nature of 
the visit, and even includes the names of people who never showed up. 
These are critical gaps that raise doubts about their historical accuracy 
and utility in helping the public understand White House operations from 
social events to meetings on key policy debates.

“If this is transparency, who needs it?” said Steven Aftergood, director 
of the project on government secrecy at the Federation of American 
Scientists. He called the White House visitor logs “very thin gruel.”

A White House official conceded the system has limitations, asserting it 
was designed not as an archive but “first and foremost to protect the 
first family, second family and White House staff while imposing the 
smallest administrative burden possible.”

https://publicintegrity.org/politics/white-house-visitor-logs-riddled-
with-holes/

Biden would stab his own mother in the back.

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