Washington, D.C.
Vice President Dick Cheney went to great lengths to prevent disclosure of visitor logs at his official residence, legal records released last week show. A liberal government-watchdog group last year filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking the identities of conservative religious leaders who visited Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory. The Secret Service maintains the visitor logs, but late last year, a newly released letter shows, a lawyer for Cheney directed the Secret Service to turn over the records to Cheney’s office and not keep copies. Cheney contends that the visitor logs are presidential records that are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. But the plaintiffs say that’s a matter for the court to decide.
Subscribe to The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
-
5 fact-checked cartoons about Meta firing its fact checkersCartoons Artists take on playing chicken, information superhighway, and more
-
NCHIs: the controversy over non-crime hate incidentsThe Explainer Is the policing of non-crime hate incidents an Orwellian outrage or an essential tool of modern law enforcement?
-
Islamic State: the terror group's second actTalking Point Isis has carried out almost 700 attacks in Syria over the past year, according to one estimate
