Times Fights to See Trump Transition Team's Log of Visitors
Josh Russell, Courthouse News, Oct. 19, 2017
MANHATTAN (CN) – Clamoring to learn who met with the Trump-Pence Transition Team in their Washington offices ahead of Inauguration Day, The New York Times brought a federal complaint to access U.S. Secret Service’s visitors log.
Though the Times says the logs are public documents subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the Secret Service shot the request down under the Presidential Records Act, putting the logs under the exclusive legal custody and control of the White House.
In-house attorney David McCraw filed the 5-page complaint for the Times and reporter Nicholas Confessore late Monday.
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