Another one of Dubya’s political appointees became a convicted felon yesterday.
The OSC is the office that is supposed to protect Federal employees against retaliation when they file whistleblower complaints. It’s supposed to enforce Merit System rules and investigate complaints. Under Bloch, the OSC failed miserably.
One of the first things Bloch did when he assumed office was to publicly state that he was going to ignore Executive Orders and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policy banning discrimination against Federal employees based on sexual orientation. He said that the EO’s and OPM policy had no basis in law and he had no intention of following them.
He also purged the headquarters office of any employees who dissented from what he was doing and illegally closed hundres of open cases without investigation. He had been under investigation by the OPM Inspector General since 2005. After the FBI raid, he ordered his employees not to cooperate with the IG investigation. He now joins a long list of former Bush officials who have been convicted of crimes while they were serving the Bush regime.
Bloch was typical of the political appointees that Dubya installed during his administration. These people came into office with a sense of entitlement, a sense that they could do anything they wanted, to hell with the law. Thankfully, we were able to rid the government of these hacks. Kay James, Lucretia Doan, and now Scott Bloch have taken their rightful places on the dung heap of a failed adminsitration, an adminsitration that ignored the law and politicized everything, including the civil service.