The Keystone Secret Service?
The curious story of the lack of documentation of Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House just got much curiouser:
[T]he Secret Service doesn't have the records - the White House does. That's because the Secret Service transfers their more comprehensive visitor logs, called WAVES (Workers Appointments and Visitors Entry System) records, to the White House every 60 days. If Judicial Watch, or anyone else, wants to find out how often Jack Abramoff visited the White House, they'll have to FOIA (and then probably sue) the Executive Office of the President.
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What is not answered by that story, or a nice summary in Salon of Abramoff & the Secret Service logs thus far, is why the Secret Service does not have, at all times, instant access to detailed information on all persons who have ever been at the White House. Even your local police department can find out in a matter of moments every time you've called to report that your dog is missing. Yet the Secret Service, guarders of some of the most powerful people on Earth, can't check for unusual patterns in who shows up at the White House (WH) and for other events involving the people they are sworn to protect, won't get tipped off if someone who attended a WH function six months ago was just busted for espionage or some crime of violence, etc? The mind reels at the implications of such a level of incompetence and the huge security holes from such a practice!
TLC
[T]he Secret Service doesn't have the records - the White House does. That's because the Secret Service transfers their more comprehensive visitor logs, called WAVES (Workers Appointments and Visitors Entry System) records, to the White House every 60 days. If Judicial Watch, or anyone else, wants to find out how often Jack Abramoff visited the White House, they'll have to FOIA (and then probably sue) the Executive Office of the President.
Full Story...
What is not answered by that story, or a nice summary in Salon of Abramoff & the Secret Service logs thus far, is why the Secret Service does not have, at all times, instant access to detailed information on all persons who have ever been at the White House. Even your local police department can find out in a matter of moments every time you've called to report that your dog is missing. Yet the Secret Service, guarders of some of the most powerful people on Earth, can't check for unusual patterns in who shows up at the White House (WH) and for other events involving the people they are sworn to protect, won't get tipped off if someone who attended a WH function six months ago was just busted for espionage or some crime of violence, etc? The mind reels at the implications of such a level of incompetence and the huge security holes from such a practice!
TLC
posted by TLC's Place at 6:02 AM
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