12 March, 2010 – National Security Archive Update
National Security Archive cites CIO Council for “lifetime failure” To address crisis in government e-mail preservation
Disappearance of John Yoo e-mail shows CIOs missing in action;
Latest debacle in two decades of red flags over saving official e-mail
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Tom Blanton – 202/994-7000
Washington, DC, March 12, 2010 – The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 ½ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes to the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, the senior federal officials (responsible for $71 billion a year of IT purchases) who have never addressed the failure of the government to save its e-mail electronically, according to the citation today by the National Security Archive.
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