Head of Whistleblower Office Criticized

WASHINGTON - The head of the federal office responsible for protecting government whistleblowers is the focus of a complaint filed Thursday by some of his own employees, who say he is undermining laws that encourage workers to expose wrongdoing.

Scott Bloch, who runs the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, refuses to enforce laws that protect whistleblowers in the federal workplace, especially gays, and is retaliating against his own staff, the employees alleged.

Bloch's office called the allegations a set of "baseless charges" and said they would be forwarded to the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency "in the hope that they will be able to put them to rest once and for all."

According to the employees' complaint, a new policy instituted by Bloch resulted in the agency closing more than 600 cases in only a few months, without referring any of them for investigation of whether the employees' allegations of government misconduct are true.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_go_ot/whistleblower_complaint

What exactly was she doing there?

daughter of the Chief Justice ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/06/politics/06HEAL.html

I don't recall details about 'waving', just having.

in her office. That would be no biggie if she had the correct license.

"President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency "??

They don't know the meaning of integrity.

"We cannot sit by and let these complaints go unheard for so long,” Bloch said. “My promise to federal employees whose cases have been unanswered is that I will ask our best attorneys and staff to fairly and completely review your cases and make a timely recommendation for resolution. We look forward to working with Congress to address the concerns of aggrieved federal employees and to judiciously handle these cases. I intend to propose methods to ensure that these unacceptable delays in processing of employee complaints will never occur again.”

This was in response to a GAO report last April.

Federal Whistleblowers are the Patriots of our nation!