http://www.laborradio.org/node/8502By Doug Cunningham
The FBI is pouring over computer records and documents seized in raids Tuesday on the Office of Special Counsel and at the home of Special Counsel Scott Bloch. That office is supposed to enforce civil rights and whistleblower protections for federal workers. But Hans Johnson, President of Washington D.C.’s Pride At Work chapter, says Bloch instead tried to dismantle sexual orientation discrimination protections and attacked union and civil rights of federal workers. Johnson says it’s part fo a Bush administration pattern.
: “To name people to public service positions exercising a great deal of public trust who have a fundamental disbelief or antagonism toward the very mission of the agency they re named to head.”
The FBI raids and grand jury subpoenas on the Office of Special Counsel and Bloch’s home are focused on possible obstruction of justice. Johnson says instead of protecting workers Bloch retaliated against them for blowing the histle on him.
: “When Bloch’s efforts to remove those non-discrimination protections covering sexual orientation were disclosed , he actually retaliated against the staff that he suspected had been involved in distributing word of his actions. And the effort to take down the union protections through the AFGE that some of the workers at OSC had just led to a continuing conflagration.”
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