Remember how the President was able and willing to provide records of who entered the White House in order to show how many times Jack Abramoff came to visit? He said that "without redactions or claims of exemption," those records would be given over to the court. The public pressure at the time forced George and his lawyers to concede that evidence but now, his lawyers are singing a different tune, one we have heard many times before.
From RawStory:
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.
"This is an extraordinary development and it raises the specter that there were additional contacts with President Bush or other high White House officials that have yet to be disclosed," said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group that filed the suit. "We've alleged that the government has committed misconduct in this litigation and frankly this is more fuel for that fire."
Sensitive security records? So if the public was shown how many times Abramoff visited the White House would allow the terrorists to win? No one on the left is buying that load of manure and even some conservatives smell a lot of smoke here as well. Judicial Watch is a leading conservative watchdog group that has gone after Democrats in the past, but now it seems that all of their attention has to be focused on their side of the fence.
If anyone is an expert at ignoring the laws of the United States, you know it is the Bush Administration. They will do and say anything to avoid legal scrutiny of their disastrous behavior. We'll see how far JW gets in their suit against the President, but with the way Congress cowers and the benches of the judiciary are increasingly filled with Bush sycophants, this "secret" might just go to their collective graves.
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