[LiteKeeper]

How does an employee of a Federal Department sue the head of the Department? That doesn't compute!

[IGOTMINE]

Remember when Clinton's menopausal Wookie took over as Attorney General...they fired EVERY prosector. The wisdwom of that move is now apparent.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"How does an employee of a Federal Department sue the head of the Department? That doesn't compute!"

He's suing him under the Federal Whistleblower statute.
By its design it is for occasions where a subordinate thinks that a superior has retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on the superior.