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U.S. Office of Special Counsel raided, Geeks on Call used to erase info?


I just heard about this on NPR today and am having a hard time figuring out exactly what the heck is going on. From CNN:

The Office of Special Counsel was established in the 1970s as an independent agency designed to protect federal employees against improper government management. Under Bloch, the agency has been at odds with the Bush White House.

Bloch’s staff began investigating whether top President Bush political adviser Karl Rove and other White House officials had used federal agencies for partisan political activities.

Later, investigators from the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector-general and the FBI began looking into Bloch’s activities.

Sounds like an odd question, but I just want to know – is Scott Bloch a good witch or a bad witch?

Oy – I’m not liking this.

Anyone?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:24 pm May 6th, 2008 in Politics 

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6 Responses to “U.S. Office of Special Counsel raided, Geeks on Call used to erase info?”

  1. 1 Joseph on May 6th, 2008 4:27 pm

    This guy is most certainly on the dark side…

    Bloch’s first major actions as head of the office were to choose as deputy a lawyer who had publicly taken a position against the “homosexual agenda”, and to hire young lawyers from Ave Maria School of Law, the Catholic school founded by Domino’s Pizza billionaire Tom Monaghan.

    In February 2004, Bloch ordered all mention of sexual orientation workplace nondiscrimination be removed from OSC’s website and printed materials. Bloch stated his office lacked the authority to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

  2. 2 Jill Miller Zimon on May 6th, 2008 5:12 pm

    Yeah – I also found some overlap between his time at the Faith-based and Community Initiative office in the White House with the former Dir. of the Office of Public Liaison, Tim Goeglein – the guy who resigned in March after he admitted plagiarizing, a lot.

  3. 3 Daniel Jack Williamson on May 6th, 2008 6:10 pm

    Stories like this will continue to abound as our government, corporations, and foreign nations all come to grips with the increased expectations of transparency.

    It may be ugly to look at now, but I find this as part of a hopeful narrative of how our planet finally submits to the need for transparency.

  4. 4 Modern Esquire on May 6th, 2008 6:34 pm

    Let me put this way, he did what Marc Dann did not. In charge of protecting whistleblowers he witch hunted them and then allegedly personally deleted office computers to hide his misdeeds.

    Here’s a good primer from TPM:
    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/fbi_raids_home_office_of_offic.php

  5. 5 Oengus on May 6th, 2008 10:41 pm

    What was Bloch hiding, something wrong? Two of his office deputies left and those hard drives erased as well, why did they leave? Somebody tipped the FBI, maybe the deputies relative to their assignments.

    They were investigating the Department of Justice and the removals of district attorneys under whose instruction. What they are chartered to do is investigate, these deputies may have uncovered controversy and left over it.

    We all are aware of the controversy over the administration replacing district attorneys, then through due diligence this agency must investigate, if the agency has allegiances it can not wear them on its sleeve, that would contradict its charter of independence.

    It seems to me that the deputies’ instructions were to investigate and told this is what we would like you to find. The investigation-produced information contrary to what Bloch wanted to find, controversy over that recorded in communication and reports…all deleted.

    Why would the FBI investigate, perhaps because he refused to acknowledge the deputies findings.

  6. 6 [update] Flash drives seized off body of Special Counsel director Bloch | Writes Like She Talks on May 8th, 2008 6:37 pm

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