[Infowarrior] - DOJ Isn't Interested In Protecting FBI Whistleblowers

[Richard Forno]

DOJ Isn't Interested In Protecting FBI Whistleblowers From Retaliation

from the a.-ignore-b.-drag-feet dept

You don't hear much about FBI whistleblowers. Many other agencies have had wrongdoing exposed by employees (and the government has often seen fit to slap the whistles out of their mouths with harsh prosecution), but the FBI isn't one of them. Forty-three years ago, whistleblowers broke into the FBI and retrieved damning documents, but no one's really broken out of the FBI to do the same. In fact, the FBI would rather not talk about whistleblowing at all. 

An optimist might chalk this up to the FBI being a tightly-run organization that polices itself for malfeasance and wrongdoing. They'd be wrong, of course. Just within the past year, the FBI has twice thwarted its own oversight and may soon face budgetary constraints if it won't turn over the documents the DOJ's Inspector General is seeking. 

There's a reason no one blows the whistle at the FBI and this GAO report spells it out: unlike every other government agency, the DOJ's internal policies contain nothing to shield FBI whistleblowers from retaliation....

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150307/10180630240/doj-isnt-interested-protecting-fbi-whistleblowers-retaliation.shtml


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