Article snippet: The Trump administration today appeared to rebuff efforts by watchdog groups to find out who visited the president at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, during the months following his inauguration. In a federal lawsuit filed on April 10, 2017, government watchdog groups asked for the release of the Secret Service’s White House visitor logs covering Inauguration Day through March 8, along with records of presidential visitors to Mar-a-Lago and other Trump properties under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The deadline for the government to “produce any non-exempt responsive records” was today, according to a court order by federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla. Although Trump spent 14 days at Mar-a-Lago over four separate visits during the dates covered by this lawsuit, today the administration only released a two-page document that included 22 names of people that visited the private club. All were part of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's entourage, who visited the estate in February. Explaining their refusal to release all visitor logs, lawyers for the Department of Justice wrote in court papers today that “[t]he remaining records that the Secret Service has processed in response to the Mar-a-Lago request contain, reflect, or otherwise relate to the President’s schedules. The government believes that presidential schedule information is not subject to FOIA.” Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics ... Link to the full article to read more