White House Visitor Logs Can Be Secret

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that White House visitor logs for the president and most of the White House staff are not public information subject to the Freedom of Information Act. "Congress made clear that it did not want documents like the appointment calendars of the president and his close advisors to be subject to disclosure" under the Freedom of Information Act, wrote Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.