Bush's Final Purge

[lame54]

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4121/bushs_final_purge/

Bush’s Final Purge
The lame duck gives dissenters in federal agencies a last round of pink slips.

By CHRISTOPHER MORAFF

The Bush administration is reportedly using its final months in office to exact retribution on federal employees who have spoken out against agency policies during the past eight years.

Since April, the administration has dismissed — or notified of pending dismissal — more than a dozen federal whistleblowers, according to Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, founder of the civil rights group No Fear Coalition and director of the National Whistleblowers Center. Some have come as recently as November. They include staffers at the Departments of Commerce, Labor, Education and Transportation. And, Coleman-Adebayo says, those are only the employees who are willing to go on record.

“We have a much longer list,” she says. “A number of people have asked us not to share their names publicly as they are hoping to keep their government jobs.”

For Coleman-Adebayo, the firings are a “final act of retaliation” against employees — many of them longtime staffers — who have expressed dissent within President Bush’s highly politicized federal agencies...

[47of74]

1. What a turd

Thank God in under 24 hours he'll be former President Bush.

[lame54]

3. Let's hope he passes out and wakes up at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow

[lame54]

2. .

[Flying Dream Blues]

4. Parting shots...how predictable. I hope all of these cases go forward

and the guilty are finally punished.

[lonestarnot]

5. Welp then I would guess that they have grounds for retaliation, but I don't know.

:evilgrin:

[MajorChode]

6. How this means Bush will cost the government even more money

Federal employees have appeal rights for termination through the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). All those employees will no doubt appeal their termination and eventually get their jobs restored. The government will have to reimburse them for back pay while they were unemployed.

Actual whistleblowers will have more protection under federal whistleblower laws.

[Strong Atheist]

7. There is no deed too low for him to use...

what a scum bag.

Edited : Recommended

[TahitiNut]

8. Federal whistleblower statutes are in great need of revision and strengthening.

They're a freaking joke, actually ... and afford very little 'protection' whatsoever.

[eridani]

9. Can't Obama hire them back ASAP? n/t

[dysfunctional press]

10. especially if they're "longtime staffers"...

what petty people creatures they are.