# The Information Sage

<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php>

- Host: [washingtonmonthly.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/washingtonmonthly.com/)
- Saved: May 13, 2011 (2011-05-14T00:59:11Z)
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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members of the Obama administration. A few weeks earlier, he had received a phone call from Earl Devaney, a former inspector general in the Department of the Interior, who is best known for leading that agency’s investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Devaney had recently been appointed head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, the body created by the Obama administration to keep track of the $780 billion in federal stimulus money that has spread out across the country.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Same host

- [You Can’t Make This Stuff Up, Part Two](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d750d79379a4/) (washingtonmonthly.com, August 10, 2009)
- [All 42 Senate Republicans announce hostage plan](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5274976f12d3/) (washingtonmonthly.com, December 1, 2010)

## Saved the same week

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- [It's Time to Drop the F Bomb - or Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL.](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8cfdfe6ce221/) (basho.com, May 13, 2011)
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- [The Tragedy of Sarah Palin](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f94b37e7aab9/) (theatlantic.com, May 13, 2011)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php