Posted on 06/22/2002 12:58:49 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:38:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A provision in the bill seeking to create a Homeland Security Department will exempt its employees from whistleblower protection, the very law that helped expose intelligence-gathering missteps before September 11.
The legislation now before Congress contains a provision allowing the director of the proposed agency to waive all employee protections in Title V, including the Whistleblower Protection Act. The act protects government employees from retaliation or losing employment for speaking out on waste, fraud and abuse.
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This smells of pi$$ed off Politico-crats @ the FBI.
More importantly, which knucklehead staffer authored this bill. I'm sure plenty of sponsors wouldn't even know about this one small part of a much bigger bill, but whomever wrote this portion should be hung out to dry.
Whi is carrying water for the President on the Hill?
Yes indeed the real non-elected officials the "Hill Rats"! Good point and always a problem.
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