MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT: White House releases only a few visitor logs.
Despite the accompanying White House claim of “transparency like you’ve never seen before,” the Obama White House continues to take the same legal position as the Bush White House, arguing that the records are not public records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Only limited “voluntary releases” are being made to settle a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group, though a federal judge has twice ruled that all the visitor logs are public.
Here’s what they’ve bothered to release, in PDF and Excel formats.
UPDATE: More here.