Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading reconstruction teams in Iraq, has received the support of the American Civil Liberties Union in his effort to keep his job.

Sopko has more than 30 years experience in investigative and oversight work. He joined Akin Gump in January 2009 as an investigator after two years as chief counsel for oversight and investigations for the House Energy and Commerce committee. At the firm, he focuses on congressional and federal investigations.

President Obama issued a directive Wednesday that encourages federal agencies to make their Web sites and documents accessible on mobile platforms.

Commencement season and this popular discussion on our Federal Buzz partner site, GovLoop, prompted this week’s Federal Buzz Question of the Week: Are you doing the job you dreamed of having when you were fresh out of school? If you’re not in your dream job, then what’s the plan to get it?

On Monday afternoon, the panel’s subcommittee on government management and the federal workforce will hear testimony on what it calls “A National Crisis: The Federal Government’s Foreign Language Capabilities.”

Yet there are differences that can lead to tension when public-private partnerships approach a problem from their unique vantage points. As private-sector employees, contractors may want to be more innovative than bureaucracy allows, and being unable to push the envelope can cause frustration.

The legislation was attached to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the House passed Friday.

Jennifer Dinoia’s blog, pulled from a State Department blogroll following an intimate posting on her reconstructive surgery after breast cancer, is back in its prominent spot on the agency’s Web site.

“The Dinoia Family,” which has featured the Foreign Service spouse’s journey through a breast cancer diagnosis at 39 as her husband was on a solo tour in Iraq, reappeared Thursday on the State Department-sanctioned site, hours after The Post reported that it had disappeared.

“There have been many reports of federal employees wasting taxpayer dollars, and in some cases committing crimes, which erodes the trust American people have in our government,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the Homeland Security subcommittee on oversight, investigations and management, said in his opening statement.