Today, Special Counsel Scott Bloch, of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), will
testify before the Senate
subcommittee responsible for oversight of his agency. The OSC is the government
office tasked with protecting the merit system in general. Its primary focus is
supposed to be protecting government whistleblowers.
By all measurable standards, the OSC under Special
Counsel Bloch has suffered. Self-reported “corrective actions” on behalf of
government whistleblowers are down nearly two-thirds since Bloch arrived,
despite a significant increase in the number of retaliation complaints OSC
processes. Meanwhile, the agency charged with protecting whistleblowers has
been plagued with numerous allegations
of internal reprisals, and Special Counsel Bloch is being investigated for harassing
his own staff. Let’s hope the Senators at today’s hearing remind Special
Counsel Bloch why the taxpayers spend $16 million a year to fund his agency.
-- Adam Miles
The Office of Special Counsel has cover-up crimes in my activies for 25 years and have always had a bad % 98% per the GAO investigation of the 1988. They have cover-up my claims for 20 years and when they had proof they left the evidence in the same Manager hands that were attacking me some Phsicily with a knife. The Congress should disband the Agency.
Posted by: Michael J. Biondo | May 26, 2007 at 09:05 PM