As Washington’s political and media types converge on Charlotte, N.C. for the Democratic National Convention, a few have spotted a familiar sight in the blocks surrounding the Time Warner Cable Arena: officers from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Graham Spanier, who stepped down as president of the Pennsylvania State University last year amid the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, has a new, top-secret job working on national security.

In the 1998 suspense thriller “Enemy of the State,” Gene Hackman, who plays a disgruntled former employee of the National Security Agency, says of the increasingly surveillance-happy U.S. government: They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls…Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to, keep tabs on you. It’s a brave new world out there. At least it better be.When the movie…

Is the Watergate historic? That’s the question that faces the District’s Preservation Review Board on Thursday. Certainly the building that redefined the art of political scandal has a place in American history, but its residents are locked in a pitched battle that mixes property rights with history. The West End Guide reminds us what’s at stake. A group of residents opposed to the conversion of the complex’s hotel into new condos want the building declared…