After lawsuit, Obama releases info on health talks

Despite his campaign promise to "make White House communications public," the Obama administration again is blocking the public from seeing White House visitor logs, this time refusing to disclose meetings with health care executives. Tonight, less than an hour before his news conference on health care, he released some of the information only after a nonprofit group filed a federal lawsuit.

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Government Seeks New Ruling in Cheney Case

The Bush administration asked an appeals court Wednesday to overrule a federal judge and allow the White House to keep secret any records of visitors to Vice President Dick Cheney's residence and office.

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Judge Orders Cheney Visitor Logs Opened

A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney's office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election-season debate over lobbyists' White House access.

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Erold Sigurdsson, 65-year-old man from northern Sweden, is once again counting his blessings and picking up the pieces after a truckload of timber slammed into his house on Thursday – for the third time.

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EMAIL logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That's the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees.

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The leftist slander of conservativism, that Italian Fascists and German Nazis were a bunch of conservatives, continues to make hay in a dispute between LGF and the Brussels Journal. Charles Johnson of LGF, who has maintained a very good website for a long time, doesn't want hi …

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...These are all real subject lines for spam messages I've received today alone.

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A court decision reached last month but under seal until Friday could force Web sites to track visitors if the sites become defendants in a lawsuit.

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I think that the German's Had the Right Idea

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Haass explained to the Trouble Shooters, "In that case, I was actually researching New Orleans Saints things, trying to see if it was going to work in New Orleans or whether or not they would be looking for a home in San Antonio.

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Seasoned system administrators know that routinely reading system logs is an important task, but reading endless lines from logs is both time-consuming and boring, especially if you are responsible for a large number of busy servers.

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Obviously anyone opposing this request must be a supporter of child pornography, right? Under the guise of fighting kiddie-porn, privacy slowly withers away.

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John Gruber takes an in-depth look at crash reporting in Mac OS X.

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