In These Times: Bush’s Final Purge

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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.

So far, the dismissals have flown largely under the radar. Representatives of the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and the Project on Government Oversight — prominent whistleblower advocacy groups — say they were unaware of the recent firings but were not surprised.

Jesselyn Radack, a former Justice Department whistleblower who serves as homeland security director at GAP, says such purges have been a Bush administration policy since the beginning. ......(more)

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1. And the GOP wonders why they have Probs with their Brand name

If they wanna get back in the saddle....they should cease and desist from High School shit..