[IP] Withholds Foreign Agent Data; Says Computer is Fragile
Begin forwarded message:
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: June 28, 2004 7:13:27 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber: ;"Peter Neumann, SRI" <neumann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fwd: [FOI-L] DOJ Withholds Foreign Agent Data; Says Computer
is Fragile
At 5:40 PM -0400 6/28/04, Michael Ravnitzky <mikerav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
posted to FOI-L:
Justice Department Denies Access to Data, Saying Their Computer is Too
Fragile!
You have gotta read the complete article, which is posted here:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/report.aspx?aid=332&sid=100
Foreign Lobbyist Database Could Vanish
Justice Department claims merely copying its foreign agents database
could destroy it
By Kevin Bogardus
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2004 - Justice Department officials say a huge
database that serves as the public's lone window on lobbying
activities by foreign governments has been allowed to decay to a point
they cannot even make a copy of its contents.
Responding to a recent Freedom of Information request from the Center
for Public Integrity, the Justice Department's Foreign Agent
Registration Unit said it was unable to copy its records
electronically because their computer system was "so fragile." In a
letter, the head of the unit's Freedom of Information office said that
simply attempting to make an electronic copy of the database "could
result in a major loss of data, which would be devastating."
SNIP
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personal comment from Michael Ravnitzky:
Here's the newest way the Justice Department is using to hid links to
Saudi funding.
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