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Obama Trashes Whistle Blower Protection for Federal Employees
Breitbart ^ | 3/1/13 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 03/01/2013 6:06:47 PM PST by paltz

President Barack Obama issued a one-page memorandum on January 25, five days after the inauguration. The memo told the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish new mandates that would allow federal agencies to terminate employment of staffers without appeal if their work can be deemed as 'national security sensitive.'

Thousands of federal positions would be negatively affected by the rule if it were to go into effect. The rule would encompass any jobs involving public safety or law enforcement duties. Anyone who works for an office that has an inspector general and individual who is a member of the federal law enforcement officers association would be affected by the proposed rule.

Whistle Blower Advocacy groups like the Washington D.C. based Government Accountability Project (GAP) say that that the Obama administration, who has prosecuted more federal employees under the World War I era espionage act for leaking information to the press, could use this rule to further intimidate federal workers from stepping forward with claims of misconduct in the government.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunrunner; murdergate; threatmatrix; whistleblowers

1 posted on 03/01/2013 6:06:51 PM PST by paltz
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To: paltz

i believe that the cia reports to the dni.

threatening (among others) the benghazi survivors from talking??


2 posted on 03/01/2013 6:13:30 PM PST by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: paltz
Of special interest.


3 posted on 03/01/2013 6:14:43 PM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Nachum

Ping.


4 posted on 03/01/2013 6:16:19 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: paltz
Obama Trashes Whistle Blower Protection for Federal Employees

Translation: Obama trashes protection of those who might tell the truth about him or the concept of Socialism.

5 posted on 03/01/2013 6:17:24 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
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To: Army Air Corps

LOVE the information on your contact page!


6 posted on 03/01/2013 6:21:11 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Thank ye kindly, ma’am.


7 posted on 03/01/2013 6:26:36 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: paltz
Whistle Blower Advocacy groups like the Washington D.C. based Government Accountability Project (GAP) say that that the Obama administration, who has prosecuted more federal employees under the World War I era espionage act for leaking information to the press, could use this rule to further intimidate federal workers from stepping forward with claims of misconduct in the government.

Thereby shutting off any further leakage on the likes of, oh, say, "Operation Fast & Furious".

8 posted on 03/01/2013 6:47:16 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: paltz

Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!! Sieg Heil!!!
OBAMA


9 posted on 03/01/2013 7:01:37 PM PST by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: paltz
Can you imagine the decibel level of the screams from the libtard media if Bush had even thought about doing this?

F#$ing TRAITORS~! ALL OF THEM

10 posted on 03/01/2013 7:26:20 PM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: paltz

It sounds to me that this is intended to go well beyond just whistle blowing. The One might want to purge those that are not loyal to him and only him. This paves the way for a quick and easy transition to his personal Schutzstaffeln (SS). This makes it easy to install his own people in every position of “national security.”


11 posted on 03/01/2013 7:37:19 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: hapnHal

Just the Communist version of the transparency he promised. Down is up, wrong is right, transparent is ......


12 posted on 03/01/2013 7:57:54 PM PST by MtnClimber (I did not vote for 0bama, someone else did that!)
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To: MtnClimber
Just the Communist version of the transparency he promised.

It is transparent. Those whose mind is clouded with Liberal Mind Fog can tell that he's up to no good, and those whose mind is clouded wouldn't see anything bad he did even if wisleblowers came forward. How much more transparent could he be?

13 posted on 03/02/2013 11:22:06 AM PST by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


14 posted on 03/02/2013 7:53:48 PM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: MtnClimber

All lies.


15 posted on 03/02/2013 8:06:10 PM PST by Jane Long
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To: paltz

Seems to be a part of a larger pattern...


16 posted on 03/02/2013 8:35:09 PM PST by GOPJ (To be free is to own one's risk - Jonathan Levy)
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To: Nachum; 444Flyer

Things just get worse by the day...


17 posted on 03/03/2013 4:53:53 PM PST by HollyB
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To: paltz

Amazing how av news bragged about him in 2009

“As an Illinois senator, Obama was responsible for passing legislation to protect government employees who come forward and risk their jobs to expose waste, corruption and national security lapses. And during his 2008 election campaign, Obama promised to protect whistleblowers, saying their “acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled.””

Will they eat their words and blow the whistle ?


18 posted on 03/03/2013 5:00:16 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HollyB

The new motto: If you see something, don’t say something.

P.S. Yes. Worse and worse!


19 posted on 03/03/2013 8:17:52 PM PST by 444Flyer
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