The 2013 Rosemary Award was awarded to James "Jimmie the Perjurer" Clapper, for blatantly lying to Congress about the scope of collection of Americans' telephone data.
He had a lot of competition, including Emperor Alexander, who lied about the usefulness of what the NSA was doing, and the Department of Justice, for classifying quotes from the Constitution as "Top Secret". The list of "also-rans" for the award is impressive, including Admiral William McRaven, who ordered the destruction of Federal records (a bit of a felony) and the DoD, for classifying statements that had been made publicly during the Cuban Missile Crisis (which happened over fifty years ago).
The award is named for Rose Mary Woods, Richard Nixon's secretary, who "inadvertently" erased 18-1/2 minutes of the Watergate tapes.
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The New York Crank said...
The Rosemary award! What a wonderful idea! How about also a Tricky Dicky Award, in honor of Richard Nixon for the year's most emphatic public denial of a self-evident truth? (In case anyone has forgotten, I'm talking about, "I am not a crook.")
I'd give this year's Tricky Dicky to Chris Christie for his denials relating to certain traffic jams on the New Jersey side of the George Washington Bridge. Yes yes, I know he'll have to compete with those perpetual Tricky Dicky nominees, the Intelligent Design and Climate Denial folks. But this year, a flap over a mere bridge is a front runner.
Yours very crankily,
The New York Crank
That missing 18 and a half minutes was perfectly explained by Arlo Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant".
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