Judicial Watch Calls on Roland Burris to Resign
By Tom Fitton
February 24, 2009
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The agency responded by releasing to Judicial Watch some shoddy records, which were not official and contained incomplete information. (According to press reports, Bush administration officials admitted at the time that more complete logs existed in response to the Court's order, but the White House directed the Secret Service to withhold them.)
So Judicial Watch went back to court and filed a "motion to compel" against the U.S. Secret Service to force compliance with the court order. At one point, the Secret Service had argued that some of the records, called "Sensitive Security Records," were so secret that it could "neither confirm nor deny" their existence. The court rejected this argument. (web site) Ultimately, we received the records we sought. Overall, Judicial Watch documented nine Bush White House appointments for Jack Abramoff. (See the records for yourself. (web site))
This lawsuit is a classic example of what Judicial Watch too often encounters when attempting to force the release of government records. Fortunately, our able legal team has virtually unmatched experience dealing with government stonewalling and we ultimately obtained the records we wanted (or at least the records the Secret Service says it had).
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Tom Fitton is president of Judicial Watch, a constitutionally conservative, nonpartisan educational foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.
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