Late edit: TPM reports the White House has reversed themselves on this one issue. It remains to be seen if the list of people was comprehensive, or an edited list.
Later edit: Just goes to show that you never take the first draft seriously. It was an edited list, and not the actual records.
CJR has the goods:
...it certainly isn’t right to say that “Obama quickly reversed their decision.” As to the “quickly” part, it’s worth noting that the Secret Service originally denied the request on July 7, not yesterday. But ,far more importantly, Obama hasn’t decided to reverse anything. All he’s decided to do is voluntarily release the most pertinent information that would have been contained in the records CREW requested. And while that counts for something, he didn’t reverse the decision to deny the actual request; FOIA requests are for records, not for the information that may be contained within those records, as CREW points out a letter they sent in response to Craig today.
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