bush administration exempts itself from whistleblower protections
Bush Declares Eco-Whistleblower Law Void for EPA Employees [ YubaNet.com 2006.09.04]As a result of an opinion issued by a unit within the Office of the Attorney General, federal workers will have little protection from official retaliation for reporting water pollution enforcement breakdowns, manipulations of science or cleanup failures.
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“It is astonishing for the Bush administration to now suddenly claim that it is above the law, ” said PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein
no, not really. the bush administration has been acting as if it was above the law for… years.
the real question is: what ecological disaster does bushco have planned for the next two years that made this opinion valuable?