The Trump administration has said it will not be releasing White House visitor records, and the site the Obama administration created to host them, Open.gov, has been officially discontinued. According to Time, White House officials say that the choice stemmed from “the grave national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.” Now, visitor logs will be kept secret until five years after Trump has left office.

Obama started releasing visitor records in 2009, in response to transparency lawsuits. His administration had released around 6 million by the end of 2016, publishing with a three-month delay. But the Trump officials told Time that Obama’s ability to redact records created “more of a…

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