Bloch, Rove and the irrelevancy of the OSC.
This story about OSC Chief, Scott Bloch, is not nearly as funny as it is sad.
The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is charged with, among other things, protecting Federal employees from retaliation for whistleblowing and from other “prohibited personnel practices”. The OSC is tasked with investigating allegations of this sort and, in some situations, bringing an action against the offending supervisor/Agency before the MSPB.
Anyone who has experience with the OSC in this capacity might agree that the Office is just a “dog and pony show” and really doesn’t help the real Federal Whistleblowers.
The chief of the OSC, Scott Bloch, is himself under investigation for, among other things, committing the very prohibited personnel practices he is tasked with investigating. According to this article at alternet.org, Mr. Bloch appears to be taking on Karl Rove.
Now, I’m of the opinion that Mr. Rove needs to be exiled to a distant and inaccessible island (preferably a volcanic one), and an investigation of his activities is long overdue. One wonders though, is this just an attempt by Mr. Bloch to distract attention from his own personnel practices?
Perhaps Mr. Rove might convince his boss to open a new investigation on OSC. The OSC could then open another investigation of …. well, you get the idea. At some point, it becomes clear that the OSC has become irrelevant.
In the meantime, those who need real protection - Federal employee whistleblowers - are lost in the shuffle.
