White House posts first set of visitor records
The White House released the first batch of visitor records under a new policy announced in September. According to the policy, all records of visitors after September 15, 2009, except for those of a few “particularly sensitive” or “purely personal” guests, will be released after a 90 to 120 day time lag, and the White House said those records will begin to appear in December.
But this batch of records is for earlier visits, those occurring before September 15, for which records will only be made available in response to specific requests. The release explains that, with up to 100,000 visitors a month, those requests have turned up some “false positives,” such as William Ayers (not that William Ayers), a Michael Jordan or two, and several Michael Moores.