Somebody is playing games with the Secret Service logs on Abramoff

UPDATE: I just heard from Paul at TPM Muckraker who explained the following: "Conyers and Slaughter were able to get Guckert's visits because they sent a FOIA to the Executive Office of the President after they were told that the Secret Service didn't have the records." Okay, that explains that, but it doesn't explain how the White House can justify turning over the Gannon records but not the Abramoff records - what's the difference? Why release one and not the other? Man-whores are okay but convicted criminals aren't?

How is it that the Secret Service now claims, per TPM Muckraker, to have no visitor logs prior to October 2004 - supposedly the Secret Service gave all the pre-10/04 logs to the White House which you can't really FOIA - when Congress was able to FOIA Secret Service logs about Jeff Gannon's visits going back to February of 2003?

They don't have logs pre October 2004, so gosh they just can't help with that FOIA request for visitor logs on Jack Abramoff's White House visits before that date, but they had hundreds of Gannon logs from 2003 and 2004 that they were more than happy to provide.

Now, the FOIA request for Gannon's stuff seems to have been made to the Secret Service, while the response came from Homeland Security. But so what? The point is they provided the records requested. Why are we now being told that only the White House has these logs when in fact it's clear from the Gannon request that the logs are in fact available to be FOIA'd quite easily?

Somebody isn't telling Judicial Watch the whole story.