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Bush Admin Makes White House Visitor Records Disappear
By Paul Kiel - January 5, 2007, 4:43 PM

What do you do when there are public records showing the details of visits by a corrupt lobbyist and his associates? If you're the Bush White House, you do what you do best: make them disappear!

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And following that link, you can follow another link to see all of the once public information that's now blocked and the reasons (judge how spurious yourself).

(And yes, I did get a word of the day calendar, why do you ask?)