From the Guardian Unlimited:
The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.
Hmmmm...sounds like this happened right around the time we were asking questions about how many times Abramoff visited the White House and who he met with.
Jack at the White House: But Who's Counting?
Bush and Abramoff, sitting in a tree...
What could the Bush Administration possible be hiding at the time? Could it be...
The memo last spring was signed by the White House and Secret Service the day after a Washington-based group asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on the Secret Service in a dispute over White House visitor logs for Abramoff.
This is another textbook example of the Bush Administration's contempt for the rule of law.