Wednesday, May 07, 2008

A Perfect Summery Of Our Current Administration

The Office of Special Counsel has a very important job to do. They are responsible for protecting the rights of federal workers when they report violations of law by the government. One of the major areas that this body would normally be responsible for helping with the investigation when a federal employees reports violation of the hatch act.

This law prohibits governmental agencies from using their power or personnel to aid a political candidate or party. One of the groups the Office of Special Counsel is involved in investigating is the justice department.

Well, it appears that we have crossing investigations. The Justice Department is now looking at this office and it's Bush appointed leaders for violations of the Hatch act, among other crimes.

Nothing sums up the corruption of this group than these two highly ironic investigations.



UPDATE

For those asking about the Hatch Act

In addition to concerns about obstruction of justice, investigators are also looking into whether Bloch violated the Hatch Act, a congressional mandate that prohibits employees from using their offices for partisan political purposes.





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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

He isn't being investigated for violating the Hatch Act. He is being investigated for retaliating against whistle blowers on his own staff and improperly dismissing whistle blower cases. Now that is irony.

Jon said...

The employees were reporting him for violation of the Hatch act.

Anonymous said...

I totally expected to see two words when I clicked over to read:

"They suck."

Alas, you offered more. :)

Progressio_Veritas said...

I couldn't find anything regarding his violation of the Hatch Act. According to the Wall Street Journal he was reported for failing to enforce laws prohibiting discrimination against gays. If there are Hatch Act violations too, I would like to read about.

Here is the WSJ link(sorry, html rusty):
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/05/06/spotlight-on-the-oscs-scott-bloch-no-stranger-to-controversy/

Jon said...

Some the complaints I have read about include accusation that he tried to retaliate against staff members who complained about his efforts to use his office to aid Republicans. This was mentioned back when the use of the Geek Squad (of some sort) to wipe his computers was first disclosed.

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