It is such hard work to cover-up so many crimes.
The Bush administration is laying out a new secrecy defense in an effort to end a court battle about the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The administration agreed last year to produce all responsive records about the visits “without redactions or claims of exemption,” according to a court order.
But in a court filing Friday night, administration lawyers said that the Secret Service has identified a category of highly sensitive documents that might contain information sought in a lawsuit about Abramoff’s trips to the White House.
The Justice Department, citing a Cold War-era court ruling, declared that the contents of the “Sensitive Security Records” cannot be publicly revealed even though they could show whether Abramoff made more visits to the White House than those already acknowledged.
“The simple act of doing so … would reveal sensitive information about the methods used by the Secret Service to carry out its protective function,” the Justice Department argued.
Our government is a farce. A joke.
What, the secret handshake?
It would have been easier to have accepted that there were UFO’s protecting the WH than to believe that a lobbyist’s visits invoked State Secret protection. God I miss Jon Stewart’s show.
book ’em all, Danno!!
Doesn’t the government “redact” sensitive portions? Or does that only apply to Valery’s book???????
The rest of the world is watching as well, their MSM may not be as complacent in buying the administration’s bullshit. But the MSM here is unlikely to even raise an eyebrow to this escapism.
Raw Story copied the story, by Pete Yost (AP) which is on top @ YahooNews. Fair to say the AP is “MSM”, and some of their reporters are doing a good job, as are more than a few elsewhere. The problem with a thoroughly corrupt regime is the amount of print it takes just to catalogue the misdeeds, much less keep one story in the public eye.
(Remember “signing statements”? More today from Charlie Savage.)
If someone who’d been willfully ignorant of this situation, that article brings up so many other questions that you just have to wonder just what was going on in there. With Bush’s denials of ever meeting Abramoff, then Abramoff’s letter to the contrary, the scrubbing of photos, etc…what classified information was the WH giving to Abramoff and what was the cost.
it was once called “stonewalling” know everything is a secret
In a follow-up, it was also announced that although the 2008 elections will in fact be held, no information regarding nominees’ names, balloting procedures, balloting order, polling places, dates, times, or results will be released as this information would reveal information useful to those who might wish to influence or confirm/question the outcome.
Official President Bush will continue to serve as Presidential Figurehead until the current crises ends or functional President Cheney dies.
It is NO secret that this admin. is so corrupt, that is for sure! Let’s see if the MSM lets them slide on this one……Maybe KO will cover it?
We may have to await the Abramoff book to learn these details. Writing. Whatelse can one do in the playgrounds that federal prisons have become for persons like Abramoff, who believe they are nothing more than political prisoners.