Tuesday, June 29, 2004
These idiots take us for idiots
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
...McIntyre explained in a May 24 letter that the computer system - operated in the counterespionage section of the Justice Department's criminal division - "was not designed for mass export of all stored images" and said the system experiences "substantial problems."
OK, so this means either:
- Their database solution really is not designed for "mass export of all stored images", which means they can't back up their data, which means they are flirting with a "major loss of data, which would be devastating."
- They're lying their asses off.
Some funny comments over at Slashdot.
// posted by Erik @ 6/29/2004 02:47:00 PM
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