Yet Another Judicial Dope Slap for Dubya

A federal judge has informed the Busheviks that public records are, you know, public. And that means Bush can’t make the records secret only so We The People can’t find out what’s in them.

This case was one of the more shameless of Bush’s attempts to evade accountability:

White House visitor logs are public documents, a federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting a legal strategy that the Bush administration had hoped would get around public records laws….
 

Visitor records are created by the Secret Service, which is subject to the Freedom of Information Act. But the Bush administration has ordered the data turned over to the White House, where they are treated as presidential records outside the scope of the public records law.
 

But U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth ruled logs from the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney’s residence remain Secret Service documents and are subject to public records requests.