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No Pardon For The Press: WH Visitors' Names Being Released Today

Christina Bellantoni | November 25, 2009, 10:24AM

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The White House this afternoon will be releasing more names of visitors who came through the gates at Pennsylvania Avenue this year.

Last month the administration for the first time offered citizens a look at names - requested by watchdog groups and press - and starting at the end of this year they will release every name.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters in his morning gaggle this morning there are about 1,600 names on this list that covers requests before Sept. 15.

The names would normally come out at the end of the day the last Friday of the month. They are being posted at WhiteHouse.gov early due to the holiday.

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Lalo35adm

November 25, 2009 10:43 AM

Excellent choice of the day to do a bit of news dump.

"Due to holiday" = loooong weekend = even better than the typical Friday news dump.

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dswx

November 25, 2009 10:50 AM in reply to Lalo35adm

Sure beats the empty lists from Shrub/Cheney years (how about those clandestine Cheney energy meetings)! And just think, it gives the Faux News/RNC channel something to foam-at-the-mouth over.

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Hussein Stemper

November 25, 2009 11:57 AM in reply to Lalo35adm

Amazing how reactionary GOPers can find evil in every burp and fart of Obama's, but it's OK that Bush did the same or worse (such as, perhaps, shooting the shit with Saudi oil despots who rob Americans blind on gas prices).

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