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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Organizations are no longer threatening to monitor everyone on their payrolls, they’re doing it. What better example than the dismissal of the Justice Department’s Kyle Sampson in mid-March, part of the Whitehouse e-mail saga that unraveled thanks to first-rate reporting by The Washington Post’s investigative reporters?
Sampson was in charge of deciding which U.S. attorneys would be fired in a shakeup last year. Eight prosecutors eventually lost their jobs. An endless e-mail exchange, which was part of some 3,000 pages of internal documents, reveals a divided Justice Department and a political crisis of mammoth proportions. Sampson resigned from his post March 12, just as the e-mails he wrote were released publicly. According to the Post, the crisis has escalated to the point where Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s tenure has been seriously threatened.
The e-mail documents pointed out that the White House was closely entwined in a convoluted strategy to manipulate and hide information. A CNN reporter said, “The e-mails show how closely officials in the White House and the Justice Department coordinated in deciding which names to include for firing, as well as the method and timing of the announcements.”
The firings also show how e-mail can shatter reputations, relationships and careers. Mike Song, an expert on e…
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