I can't give you that info because we can't copy our database to disk.
The Center for Public Integrity sought information about lobbying activities available under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act, a 1938 law passed in response to German propaganda before World War II. Database records describe details of meetings among foreign lobbyists, the administration and Congress, and payments by foreign governments and some overseas groups for political advertisements and other campaigns."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.
Oh, but if you want, you can come see the documents for four hours at a time, and no bets the paper format is current.
I don't know what's worse; the effrontery of this, or the idea that DOJ is unable to back up its data. In the first case it's arrogance of the first order; in the second it's absolute incompetence.
It's not even a novel excuse; kids have been saying things like that about their homework ever since there have been schools outside the home. (Story found over at the former CalPundit.)
Posted by Linkmeister at July 2, 2004 12:01 AM