Our transparent president doesn’t want us to see the friends he keeps. In a recent ruling, an appeals court sided with the White House, allowing Obama to keep his interactions dark from the American people.

Via Drudge, The Washington Examiner reports,

President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House, according to a decision of the federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia made public Friday.

The case was brought by Judicial Watch, the government watchdog nonprofit that has been fighting a long legal battle seeking to force release of the White House visitor logs as public records under the Freedom of Information Act.

But in a decision that is drawing intense criticism from across the ideological spectrum, the circuit court said the president has a “constitutional perogative” not to tell the American people who he or his staff meets with in the White House.

The court said the president has such a prerogative because he is not covered by the FOIA and because of “special policy considerations” that allow exemption of visitor logs from classification as agency records subject to release under the public records law.

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"President Obama and his successors in the Oval Office are not obligated to make public the names of individuals visiting the White House, according to a decision of the federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia made public Friday."

And they are wrong. The White House is NOT his. It belongs to the American people. Plus,he is an elected official doing the business of the American people,so the people have a right to know who was there visiting,even if we don't necessarily have a right to know what was discussed.