Biden will make White House visitor logs public

[highplainsdem]

Source: Axios

The Biden-Harris administration plans to release White House visitor logs once the president-elect takes office, transition spokesperson Jen Psaki said Friday.

Why it matters: President Trump's White House kept visitor logs to core offices private, a move that was heavily criticized and faced legal challenges for its lack of transparency. Biden's decision is a return to the policy held during the Obama administration, which archived and released its logs, per Politico.

What she's saying: "For the sake of clarity — The Biden-Harris Administration will return to the policy of releasing White House visitor logs," Psaki tweeted.

Of note: "Also true that visitors will be limited for some time because safety during the pandemic is top priority," she added, referring to the new administration's COVID precautions.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/biden-white-house-visitor-log-public-trump-ee24b18f-b40d-456d-84a8-3ac3fe826d25.html

[George II]

1. Refreshing change. Does this mean the My Pillow guy will have to sign in or that he won't....

...be invited at all.

I can just imagine what's in those logs from the last four years. I hope the FBI scours them for leads on the riot.

[Initech]

10. I can't imagine Biden will have time to meet with pillow salesmen and Fox News personalities.

He's going to have a lot to clean up Trump's mess alone.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I believe that the visitor logs had always been public

before the current President.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Open up and make the tRump visitor logs public. . . . nt

[Karadeniz]

11. Good luck finding any...or his phone call summaries!

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Dick Cheney stopped the practice after 9/11

When he was meeting with corporate leaders (oil) in the run up to war, or so it was reported.

It seems White House accountability and transparency is now a partisan issue.
Republicans can run on it: "I promise not to disturb you with the scary details of what we're doing".

[RussBLib]

5. Release the T**** logs!!

More likely is that they were destroyed. T**** and his henchmen have no respect for our form of government.

[apnu]

9. ... if they ever kept the logs in the first place.

The Trump cabal is so frigging sloppy and incompetent. I doubt whatever flunky they had there had the intelligence to log things, forget whatever standing orders or polices that boob Trump allowed.

[orleans]

12. remember when the douche bag first got there he had sarah palin & kid rock

piss around in the white house with him.
those lowlifes (trump included) were so busy making fun of statues and portraits that probably no one thought of those logs. after that, trump just figured: fuck it

[apnu]

17. This is far more likely than any insidious plot to hide things.

Trump is lazy and incompetent in all things. His businesses, his marriages, his sex life. Why would he suddenly be clever about logs?

He probably thought logging visitors sounded like too much work and said "fuck it". It is a voluntary policy after all.

[pandr32]

6. As it should be

After all, it is our White House.

[Salviati]

7. Forget being a policy...

It should be codified into law, along with a whole host of other things that were presidential norms that trump ran roughshod over.

[FakeNoose]

8. I'm guessing that foreign operatives won't be given WH appointments

[Grasswire2]

13. HOORAAAY! nt

[Cha]

14. Of course.. Back to Reality &

No Fucking Puppet Masters Swinging the Puppet.

[jgmiller]

15. And they should release the last 4 years of visitor logs

If they were public for 8 years under Obama and now under Biden there should be no reason that the last 4 should remain secret.

[Karma13612]

16. Ahhhhh, just like the good ol' days....eom