Some (mostly unsung) American Heroes

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This was on Democracy Now! today - a list of people who resigned in protest or were fired for disagreeing with BushCo. - compiled by TomDispatch.com

Go to the link for more info about each one:

Bunnatine ("Bunny") Greenhouse

Richard Clarke

Paul O'Neill

Flynt Leverett, Ben Miller and Hillary Mann

Larry Lindsey

Ann Wright

John Brady Kiesling

John Brown

Rand Beers

Anthony Zinni

Eric Shinseki

Karen Kwiatkowski

Charles "Jack" Pritchard

Major (then Captain) John Carr and Major Robert Preston

Captain Carrie Wolf

Colonel Douglas Macgregor

Paul Redmond

John W. Carlin

Susan Wood and Frank Davidoff

Thomas E. Novotny

Joanne Wilson

James Zahn

Tony Oppegard and Jack Spadaro

Teresa Chambers

Martha Hahn

Andrew Eller

Mike Dombeck

James Furnish

Mike Parker

Sylvia K. Lowrance

Bruce Boler

Eric Schaeffer

Bruce Buckheit

Rich Biondi

Martin E. Sullivan, Richard S. Lanier and Gary Vikan

"In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, eyes began to focus on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the political appointees running it. What had happened to the professionals who once staffed FEMA? In 2004, Pleasant Mann, a 17-year FEMA veteran who heads the agency's government employee union told Indyweek:

"Since last year, so many people have left who had developed most of our basic programs. A lot of the institutional knowledge is gone. Everyone who was able to retire has left, and then a lot of people have moved to other agencies."
Disillusionment with the current state of affairs at FEMA was cited as the major cause for the mass defections. In fact, a February 2004 survey by the American Federation of Government Employees found that 80% of a sample of remaining employees said FEMA had become "a poorer agency" since being shifted into the Bush-created Department of Homeland Security. What happened to FEMA has happened, in ways large and small, to many other federal agencies. In an article by Amanda Griscom in Grist magazine, Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, made reference to the "unusually high" rate of replacement of scientists in government agencies during the Bush administration. "If the scientist gives the inconvenient answer they commit career suicide," he said.

However defined, the casualties of the Bush administration are legion. The numbers of government careers wrecked, disrupted, adversely affected, or tossed into turmoil as a result of this administration's wars, budgets, policies, and programs is impossible to determine. Although every administration leaves bodies strewn in its wake, none in recent memory has come close to the Bush administration in producing so many public statements of resignation, dissatisfaction, or anger over treatment or policies. The aforementioned list of casualties includes among the best known of those who have resigned or left the administration under pressure (although not necessarily those who have suffered most from their acts). Perhaps no one knows exactly how many government workers, at all levels, have fallen in the face of the Bush administration. Those mentioned above are just a few of the highest profile members of this as yet uncounted legion, just a few of the names we know.

{NOTE: If you know of others, or are one of the "fallen legion" yourself, please send the information (and whatever supporting material you would care to supply) to [email protected] with the subject heading: "fallen legion" to add another name to the "wall." This is a subject TomDispatch would like to return to in the future.}"

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=28817

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3. Christy Whitman

a * enabler who didn't enable quite enough and made the mistake of actually trying to do her job. Didn't resign exactly under protest, but did resign, unable to work with * administration.

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