{"id":12816,"date":"2006-02-24T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/they-havent-got-mail\/"},"modified":"2006-02-24T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T15:23:00","slug":"they-havent-got-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/they-havent-got-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"They Haven&#8217;t Got Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ll start with an obvious statement: e-mail has become a vital communications medium in all facets of society.  So it came as a surprise to me when <i>Newsweek<\/i> reported that during the course of congressional investigations into government responses to Hurricane Katrina, it was revealed that: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11371281\/site\/newsweek\/\" target=\"_blank\">Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security Donald Rumsfeld and Michael Chertoff &ldquo;do not use e-mail.&rdquo;<\/a>  Granted, they have aides and staff to manage and filter e-mail traffic, but to be totally divorced from such an essential means of communication, and, more importantly, documentation of events and correspondences is unconscionable.  Unbelievable&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/politics\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">politics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/katrina\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">katrina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/w\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">w<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/dick\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">dick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/computers\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">computers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/email\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">email<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/rant\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">rant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114079410261613788?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ll start with an obvious statement: e-mail has become a vital communications medium in all facets of society. So it came as a surprise to me when Newsweek reported that during the course of congressional investigations into government responses to Hurricane Katrina, it was revealed that: Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security Donald Rumsfeld and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/they-havent-got-mail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Haven&#8217;t Got Mail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}