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.
Daily Archives: June 29, 2004
Senator Kohl spends some time on baseball issues…
Steve Fainaru continues his series on the monopoly that is baseball, including Bud Selig’s all powerful role in the game and public financing of stadiums. Today’s article includes quotes from Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis) regarding a potential baseball team in Washington, DC (nice to see the Senator spending time on important issues….)
I continue to be amazed that it took a newspaper 700 miles from Wisconsin, The Washington Post, to write this series on the fleecing of taxpayers. Perhaps former Governor Tommy Thompson helped out – he’s quoted in the articles.