CIO council wins dubious award.

• Position: OPEN GOVERNMENT - Chief Information Officers Council - Brief article

The CIO Council, which handles the federal government's IT needs, has been given the Rosemary Award for doing a horrible job preserving e-mails for federal offices. The award is given out annually by the National Security Archive (NSA) at George Washington University to the federal agency with the worst open-government practices. The Rosemary Award is named in honor of President Richard Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, who tried to defend Nixon's erasing of 18.5 minutes of a key Watergate tape by saying she did it...