[IP] CRS Report finds govt whistleblowers lack adequate protections
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: January 11, 2006 4:49:41 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CRS Report finds govt whistleblowers lack adequate protections
At 10:36 AM -0500 1/11/06, Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
posted to FOI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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