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National Perspective

Government workers' private e-mails need some safeguards

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By Peter S. Canellos
Globe Columnist / April 17, 2007

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WASHINGTON -- Like many information technologies before it, e-mail has found its way to the center of a Washington controversy. TV made Kennedy look better and the Vietnam War look worse. Tape recording helped do in Richard Nixon. An Internet video brought down Senator George Allen. (Full article: 777 words)

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