"White House shifts policy, will start releasing visitors’ names" by Ben Feller, Associated Press | September 5, 2009
WASHINGTON - .... Some names will be kept private, though.
That DOESN'T SOUND like a SHIFT to me!
So what is with the DECEPTIVE HEADLINE?
Those include people who are attending meetings of particular sensitivity, such as possible Supreme Court nominees, and those whose identity cannot be disclosed because of what the White House called national security imperatives.
Like Dick Cheney's oilfield carve-up committee?
The White House will also not release records related to “purely personal guests’’ of the president’s and vice president’s families.
Translation: You won't know which globalists are coming to see him.
Translation: The GLOBALIST PLAN has BEEN HASHED OUT so there is NO NEED to further protect those meetings. They are done, and the plan is set. Let the public in now!
Instead, the White House’s counsel office will respond to individual requests for records during that time, but only if those requests are deemed reasonable, narrow, and specific.
Did we really change administrations? Coulda fooled me....
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"Obama wants to keep watch list data secret; Critics say public disclosure needed to correct errors" by Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post | September 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch list information it routinely shares with federal, state, and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficult for people who have been improperly included on such lists to challenge the government....
Besides, they wouldn't want to SPILL the BEANS by ANNOUNCING WHO their "Al-CIA-Duh" agents and assets are, would they?
A consolidated government watch list was created in 2004 and is housed at the Terrorist Screening Center. As of September 2008, it included about 1.1 million names and aliases corresponding to 400,000 individuals....
So there are OVER a MILLION TERRORISTS in the U.S.?
Wouldn't things be blowing up all over the place?
Intelligence officials in the administration are pressing for legislation that would exempt “terrorist identity information’’ from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Such information - which includes names, aliases, fingerprints, and other biometric identifiers - is widely shared with law enforcement agencies and intelligence “fusion centers,’’ which combine state and federal counterterrorism resources....
The proposed FOIA exemption has been included in pending House and Senate intelligence authorization bills at the administration’s request....
And they will get it. Democrats rolled over for Bush, think they won't for this guy?
Still, some officials say, public disclosure of watch list data risks alerting terrorism suspects that they are being tracked and may help them evade surveillance....
Wouldn't they assume they are being tracked anyway?
I do and I'm not even a terrorist (remember, I live in AmeriKa, readers).
Of course, they can READ ALL THEY WANT right here!
Not really hiding anything, am I?
One intelligence official said the information’s disclosure creates a host of difficulties.
“Here’s the problem,’’ the official said, discussing the matter on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record. “If you’ve got somebody, including a suspected terrorist, who can FOIA that information, you’re making intelligence-gathering methods vulnerable. You’re possibly making intelligence agents and law enforcement personnel vulnerable. Suspects could alter their behavior and circumvent the surveillance.’’
Well, if they filed a FOIA you would KNOW the NAME of who was inquiring, wouldn't you -- as if terrorists were filing FOIAs!!?
So if I CLEAN UP the LANGUAGE I will become suspicious?
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