As part of President Obama's commitment to government transparency, we are providing online records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis. The White House has released nearly 3,000,000 records to date.
If you believe the line about "Obama's commitment to government transparency" then I'm sure they didn't hold anything back.
The Obama administration says it will release names of most visitors to the White House, starting at the end of this year. Information on visitors in the first eight months of his administration will remain secret — though officials say they will consider narrow and specific requests.
I'm sure they didn't leave out anything important.
Look at that. Trump stopped releasing the visitor logs, but Biden starts again. Thank goodness Biden and Obama are so committed to transparency!
The White House on Friday released its first batch of records disclosing visits by official guests, returning to a practice set by the Obama administration but ditched by Donald Trump.
The White House disclosed 400 visits during President Joe Biden’s first 12 days in office. The White House typically sees hundreds of visitors each day, but the pandemic has slowed those visits dramatically, the records show.
The other big thing is that Presidential Records going public is a huge declass. We now get the visitor logs they DIDN'T want to share.
Because "most" is a relative term? What do you think of us as "most"? Read carefully how they report it. Many might fall on dictionary term, but that is just now humans work. A reporter could define most as "55%". If someone calls them out they feign ignorance and say "I thought that was what most meant".
Most is flexible. Is it the same amount every day? Is it 90% one day and 60% the next? They could still call it "most".
And it's not transparency.
Hundreds visit the White House every day, but it is only a few that are important. I'd rather them be honest and not report any then play these games designed to deceive sheep. They are NOT reporting what matters.
Reporting that the entire third grade class of Middleton School visited the White House, but leaving out that the head of Pfizer or a major donor of a political party might have visited 13 times is not transparency. It's an illusion designed to make people shut up and not ask questions.
If a woman reports to her husband that she had 5 friends over, but leaves out that the mailman (her secret lover) came later at 4 pm is she really being "transparent" with him?
No, she's just trying to make herself look transparent so he'll ask fewer questions. It is fundamentally dishonest. If they want to claim they're being transparent then release all the visitors or don't do it at all.
Do you mean this?
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records
If you believe the line about "Obama's commitment to government transparency" then I'm sure they didn't hold anything back.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32447886
I'm sure they didn't leave out anything important.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-releases-first-visitor-logs-since-obama-2021-05-08/
Look at that. Trump stopped releasing the visitor logs, but Biden starts again. Thank goodness Biden and Obama are so committed to transparency!
The other big thing is that Presidential Records going public is a huge declass. We now get the visitor logs they DIDN'T want to share.
What's your theory on why Trump stopped publishing visitor logs? Why wouldn't be be truly transparent compared to Obama?
Because "most" is a relative term? What do you think of us as "most"? Read carefully how they report it. Many might fall on dictionary term, but that is just now humans work. A reporter could define most as "55%". If someone calls them out they feign ignorance and say "I thought that was what most meant".
Most is flexible. Is it the same amount every day? Is it 90% one day and 60% the next? They could still call it "most".
And it's not transparency.
Hundreds visit the White House every day, but it is only a few that are important. I'd rather them be honest and not report any then play these games designed to deceive sheep. They are NOT reporting what matters.
Reporting that the entire third grade class of Middleton School visited the White House, but leaving out that the head of Pfizer or a major donor of a political party might have visited 13 times is not transparency. It's an illusion designed to make people shut up and not ask questions.
If a woman reports to her husband that she had 5 friends over, but leaves out that the mailman (her secret lover) came later at 4 pm is she really being "transparent" with him?
No, she's just trying to make herself look transparent so he'll ask fewer questions. It is fundamentally dishonest. If they want to claim they're being transparent then release all the visitors or don't do it at all.