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Dover Mortuary Punished Whistle-Blowers

Kevin Spak — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:51:38 CST

Officials at the Dover Air Force Base, beset by accusations that they horrifically mistreated the nation's war dead, punished the whistle-blowers who brought those abuses to light, according to a new report from the Office of Special Counsel. The special counsel sent its 39-page report on the abuses to the...

Bushies Illegally Billed Taxpayer for Political Trips

Kevin Spak — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:34:45 CST

A three-year Office of Special Counsel investigation has found that members of George W. Bush’s administration—including at least seven Cabinet secretaries—campaigned on the taxpayer dime. In the run-up to the 2006 elections, Cabinet members took many politically motivated trips, falsely claiming they were on official business, investigators concluded....

FBI Seizes Docs From Federal Watchdog

Jonas Oransky — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:33:08 CDT

FBI agents raided the Office of Special Counsel today, serving subpoenas and seizing documents from agency chief Scott Bloch. Bloch, whose office protects federal whistleblowers, is being investigated for obstructing justice, the Wall Street Journal reports, with Bloch's use of an outside service to erase office computers being viewed as...

Geeks Bring Trouble for Rove Sleuth

Kevin Spak — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:57:00 CST

Using Geeks on Call to scrub his computer could come back to haunt the man investigating Karl Rove for improper partisan activities, the Wall Street Journa l reports. Scott Bloch—head of a federal office charged with protecting whistleblowers and keeping employees from using government for partisan activities—ordered an...

Federal Probe Targets Rove, WH Operations

Sam Gale Rosen — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:14:10 CDT

The U.S. attorney firings, disappearing e-mails, and other White House political operations have found their way onto the radar of a small office that normally investigates federal employees' misbehavior. Karl Rove is in the sights of the Office of Special Counsel, whose head has vowed not to "leave any...