Court Blocks Order To Identify Cheney's Visitors

[sabra]

http://www.nysun.com/article/42739

Court Blocks Order To Identify Cheney's Visitors

A federal appeals court has blocked a district judge's ruling that could have led to the disclosure of the identities of visitors to Vice President Cheney's home and White House office.

Late yesterday afternoon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted an emergency stay of the lower judge's order, which required the Secret Service to turn over two years of visitor logs to the Washington Post or offer a detailed legal justification for withholding the records.

The appeals judges, Karen Henderson, David Sentelle, and David Tatel, did not offer a detailed explanation for their decision. The government "satisfied the stringent standards required for a stay," the judges wrote.

The newspaper argued that the upcoming election lent urgency to its Freedom of Information Act request. The district judge, Ricardo Urbina, concurred.

[LaurenG]

1. What are they afraid of?

Did satan visit too many times?:sarcasm:

[Zorra]

3. White House office? Didn't "Jeff Gannon" visit the WH a lot?

No wonder Cheney is pulling out all the stops to keep this a secret.

[Demeter]

4. I'm Trying to Think of Anything Sufficiently Significant

that would politically or socially embarrass a man who shot an 80-year-old judge in the face....
for which the judge apologized profusely.

What is this voodoo Cheney has? The man is too powerful for anybody's good.

[goforit]

2. Time to appeal!!! This is pathetic!!! This pisses me off!!!

[partylessinOhio]

5. Isn't this a form of "legislating from the bench" to protect ViceSatan?

Why is it ok for Karen Henderson, David Sentelle and David Tatel to protect Repuglicans by reversing another judge's decision?

[april]

6. he is not above the law!

what BS and where or where is the reporting about this !

[shanti]

9. he thinks he is

above the law, and that's all that matters.

[Riddler]

7. David Sentelle.....figures! This is the same dirtbag who overturned

the convictions of Ollie North and John Poindexter, AND appointed Ken (asshole) Star to investigate Bill Clinton. Right-wing partisan dirtbags like this asshole make me ashamed of my beloved alma mater, UNC-CH. Certainly no apparent conflict there unless you're either deaf, mute, and blind, or a complete kool-aid drinking idiot who still believes anything any right-wing asshat says.

[comsymp]

10. Yeah, the name Sentelle generally guarantees a partisan perversion

of law.

But shame on you, Riddler, for leaving out one of his more charming attributes - let's not forget that Sentelle was a protege of our Dearly Beloved Former Senator Helms, who got him onto the Court to begin with.

[Riddler]

21. Thanks for reminding me, comsymp, of that pile of human waste

known as Jesse Helms. Between him and Lauch Faircloth, I wonder if NC will EVER recover from the black-eyes these two heaps of right-wing bullshit have burdened our once-proud reputation with. And what have we evolved to? Liddy Dole and Richard Burr! God help us with these 2 rubber-stamp hypocrites "representing" us!

[gratuitous]

14. Gee, David Sentelle again

How odd that he turns up on so many panels for the DC Circuit, particularly those cases having to do with uncovering Bush administration shenanigans. And every time he rules, it turns out that the people have no right to know what's going on in their name or what's being done with their tax dollars.

[Ian David]

8. Maybe the logs reveal visits by kidney dialysis technicians?

"But Mister Cheney, you're not on Dialysis. Hey... where's Osama?"

[sutz12]

11. Apparently, it's taking longer than they thought to alter them. nt

[acmejack]

12. You knew he would never have to tell us.

I would have been stunned beyond belief.

[humbled_opinion]

13. Investigations begin Jan 07... n/t

[onehandle]

15. Yup. nt

[keepCAblue]

16. Were any of these judges of those Bush appointees who...

...made political contributions to Rethugs or Bush, himself, while being considered for their bench appointment?

Money trails lead to Bush judges - 4 Month Investigation (Salon)

[lpbk2713]

17. Frequent visits by Limbaugh, Hannity, Coultergeist?

And all the other RW propagandists?

[stepnw1f]

18. Obstruction of Justice?

Can this be overturned?

[Stephanie]

19. meanwhile the shredder truck is parked in front of the Naval Observatory

WTF

[Marie26]

20. Is this what he's busily shredding right now?

The truth will come out, eventually.

[Supersedeas]

22. now, do we understand why the DC Circuit Court is so important--Bushies do

[cosmicdot]

23. Karen Henderson is a Reagan appointee

David Sentelle is a Reagan appointee
David Tatel is a Clinton appointee

http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj