As you may have heard, some top Justice Department officials recently testified to congress that they were not aware of controversial plans to fire eight federal attorneys even though we now have email evidence that they had been informed. Their defense? They simply “did not scroll down far enough on their blackberries.”

“Either Elston did not scroll down on his BlackBerry to read the last section [of the e-mail] or it made no impression on him, because he knew that it did not reflect the department’s plan for replacing the U.S. attorneys who would be asked to resign,” says spokesman Brian Roehrkasse.

Now that sounds like some awesome bullshit, but as someone who was tied to a blackberry for a full year and a half, I’m almost sympathetic.