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As the Justice Department hunts for the latest batch of missing federal e-mails, the officials who oversee spending of $71 billion a year for information technology got a big raspberry Friday for a 14-year-long failure to ensure that government e-mails are preserved.

For all the spending it oversees, the Federal Chief Information Officers Council is virtually unknown to the general public. Now it has "won" this year's Rosemary Award for the worst open government performance.

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If you're PressSec -- White House press secretary Robert Gibbs' username on Twitter -- you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time.

Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obama's record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter.

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Victor Borge and the Player PianoWe lived on Oak Street when one daymy father came home with a white pianobig and heavy as a horse that hadtwo large pedals under its keyboard whichif you placed a paper roll titled Lady of Spainbetween two spindles behind a sliding doorabove the keys like a wood block in a latheand pumped with both feet the avatar

Bill McKibben in The Nation:

By Maniza Naqvi

By Maniza Naqvi

Michael Hayden's may not be a household name, but it is a name closely aligned with the phrase "warrantless wiretapping." From 1999 to 2005, Hayden was director of the National Security Agency, where he oversaw the controversial "warrantless surveillance" program. President George W. Bush nominated him as CIA director in 2006 and he served in that position until early 2009.

Michael Hayden's may not be a household name, but it is a name closely aligned with the phrase "warrantless wiretapping." From 1999 to 2005, Hayden was director of the National Security Agency, where he oversaw the controversial "warrantless surveillance" program. President George W. Bush nominated him as CIA director in 2006 and he served in that position until early 2009.