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From: Jim Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 11, 2006 4:49:41 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CRS Report finds govt whistleblowers lack adequate protections
At 10:36 AM -0500 1/11/06, Patrice McDermott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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
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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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