CRS Report finds govt whistleblowers lack adequate protections

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: January 11, 2006 4:49:41 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: CRS Report finds govt whistleblowers lack adequate protections

At 10:36 AM -0500 1/11/06, Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott () ALAWASH ORG>  
posted to FOI-L () LISTSERV SYR EDU:
> http://www.pogo.org/m/gp/gp-crs-nsw-12302005.pdf
>
> http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0106/011006c1.htm
>
>
> Report finds government whistleblowers lack adequate protections
> By Chris Strohm
> cstrohm () govexec com
>
> The agencies and laws created to protect government workers who  
> report wrongdoing from retaliation have been ineffective, a new  
> report concludes.
>
> The Congressional Research Service report describes a power  
> struggle between the executive branch and Congress that has lasted  
> for several decades.
>
> "Enacting statutory rights for whistleblowers and establishing new  
> executive agencies to protect those rights has not produced the  
> protections that some expected," CRS stated. "As explained in this  
> report, the Office of Special Counsel, the Merit Systems Protection  
> Board, and the [U.S. Court of Appeals for the] Federal Circuit --  
> the agencies created by Congress to safeguard the rights of  
> whistleblowers -- have not in many cases provided the anticipated  
> protections to federal employees."
>
> [...]



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