White House Still Shuns Post

The Bush administration asked an appeals court yesterday 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.

To make the visitor records public would be an “unprecedented intrusion into the daily operations of the vice presidency,” the Justice Department argued in a 57-page brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

The government was responding to an October order, by U.S.