LIFE IN JOHN ASHCROFT’S AMERICA….Freedom of Information Act? What Freedom of Information Act?
The Bush administration is offering a novel reason for denying a request seeking the Justice Department’s database on foreign lobbyists: Copying the information would bring down the computer system.
“Implementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating,” wrote Thomas J. McIntyre, chief in the Justice Department’s office for information requests.
….”This was a new one on us. We weren’t aware there were databases that could be destroyed just by copying them,” Bob Williams of the Center for Public Integrity said Tuesday.
Coming next: we can’t fulfill your request because the dog ate all our floppy disks and we can’t get more until the next fiscal year starts.
They’re not even pretending to be serious anymore, are they?
