The Daily Background

Well, this doesn’t seem suspicious at all:

A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are subject to the Presidential Records Act.

Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president.

Uhhh…. yeah it temporarily “prevents the public from learning who visited the vice president” (until 5 years after the Administration is out of office, FOIA requests can’t be filled), but the Presidential Records Act also prevents the White House from destroying said information. Apparently CREW’s people are pretty pissed, saying “The latest filings make clear that the administration has been destroying documents and entering into secret agreements in violation of the law.”

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