White House Visitor Logs Are Public, Judge Rules, NYT, 12/17/07.
A federal judge ruled Monday that White House visitor logs were public records and ordered the Bush administration to stop withholding them from scrutiny by outside groups.
The Tsarist response:
Spokesmen for the White House and the Justice Department withheld comment on Judge Lamberth’s ruling and whether it would be appealed.
“As these issues remain in litigation, we will not comment further at this time,” said a White House spokesman, Tony Fratto.
Administration officials signaled, however, that the White House was almost certain to appeal. It has repeatedly tangled with Judge Lamberth, who has issued decisions in several cases that challenged the administration’s theories of executive power.
Translation - Not on your f****** life!
and...
Mukasey rejects congressional request on CIA probe, Reuters, 12/14/07
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday rejected a congressional request for information about a Justice Department probe into the CIA's destruction of videotapes of harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists.
Tsarist response:
In refusing to release information that federal investigators have dug up so far, Mukasey wrote: "The department has a long-standing policy of declining to provide non-public information about pending matters."
"This policy is based in part on our interest in avoiding any perception that our law enforcement decisions are subject to political influence," Mukasey added in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the panel's ranking Republican.
Translation: I've got it and you want it. Only, I'm not going to let you have it, because I'm not supposed to have it.
confused? aren't we all?
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