On Tuesday, May 3, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton module wage evidence to the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing, entitled “White House Transparency, Visitor Logs and Lobbyists,†module examine issues concerning the promulgation of White House traveller records.
The Chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee is Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Ranking Minority Member is Diana DeGette (D-CO).
To view the transactions weekday live online, click here:
- When: Tuesday, May 310:30 AM ET
- Where: Rayburn House Office BuildingRoom 2123
As scenery to tomorrow’s testimony, it was Judicial Watch that successfully forced the promulgation of White House traveller logs attendant to visits by former lobbyist and guilty malefactor Jack Abramoff to the Dubya White House in 2006. Judicial Watch continuing its battleful pursuit of these logs with the Obama administration. Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) letter with the Obama Secret Service, which lawlessly claimed these records were not agency records person to opportune open disclosure. Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit, which is ongoing.
Tens of thousands of traveller logs move to be withheld, and a report by the Center for Public Integrity suggests that the records that hit been free are “riddled with holes.†Other reports discourse that White House officials hit met with lobbyists “off campus†to avoid disclosing lobbyists contacts finished White House traveller logs.
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