DoJ - Making Data Public Would 'Crash System'

orthogonal writes "The Justice Department today denied Freedom of Information Act requests to make public data on foreign lobbyists, claiming that '[i]mplementing such a request risks a crash that cannot be fixed and could result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating'. The requestor responded that '[t]his 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. Maybe we should tell John Ashcroft about open source database and copying solutions?"

Comments

Too late

[Doc Ruby]

The system is already crashed. The Attorney General, head of the Department of Justice, is nothing but an incompetent liar. When faced with our open society, all he has is lies about fear. kill -9 this zombie process and start flushing the buffers while we prepare to reboot in November.

There's only one thing to do about this...

[James Turpin]

Vote against this administration. The reason they are doing this is that revealing the information would loose votes for the current administration. In order to balance the scales of democracy and make the election more fair, everybody who reads this article should vote against Bush. Because this administration has already admitted by its actions that it is corrupt.

Re:Ashcroft is a Nazi

[Anonymous Coward]

"Has anyone McCarthy accused of being a commie been cleared?"

Fred Fisher.

And fuck you.

Re:Administration marked by lack of transparency

[dvk]

> One of the scariest things about this administration is the sheer lack of transparency

Perhaps you have heard of this guy called FDR? The one who was so flipping secretive and un-transparent that compared to him Bush seems made of glass?