A "Agreement memo" was signed by the White House and Secret Service the day after (May 17th) a Washington group asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Secret Service in a dispute over White House visitor logs for Abramoff, it
states that all entry and exit data on White House visitors belongs to the White House as presidential records rather than to the Secret Service as agency records. Therefore, the agreement states, the material is not subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.
The government is also continuing to erode privacy as it pursues the war on terrorism. The latest effort is the FBI’s attempt to make sure it can monitor voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) phone calls.
U.S. President George W. Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a court warrant, the New York Daily News reported on Friday.
In a move that could spark new fears about the administration's infringement of personal privacy,
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