The AP is reporting that the Bush administration is denying a request seeking the Justice Department's database on foreign lobbyists because copying the information would bring down the computer system. There you go: A database which can't retrieve data without fear of crashing. The system is operated in the counterespionage section of the Justice Department's criminal division and "was not designed for mass export of all stored images" according to a DOJ spokesperson, who also said the system experiences "substantial problems."