Alaska Ping.
Posted on 04/26/2019 4:13:28 PM PDT by george76
The federal office that protects employees against reprisals for whistleblowing is advocating on behalf of a federal employee in Alaska who complained about the handling of an Arctic offshore lease sale.
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced .. it’s filing a whistleblower retaliation complaint with the Merit Systems Protection Board on behalf of Jeffrey Missal, a regional environmental officer for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
Missal was fired after filing a complaint with the Interior Department’s inspector general and contending that the department violated environmental regulations to facilitate Arctic oil exploration.
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Missal has been represented by the Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower advocacy organization. Missal was fired in January 2016, but the board halted the termination in August 2017.
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According to the Office of Special Counsel, Missal in 2012 began expressing concern that the Interior Department had violated environmental regulations to facilitate oil exploration in the Arctic Ocean.
Records from the Merit System Protection Board indicate that Missal believed the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement violated the environmental review process for a lease sale in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast.
When Missal was not satisfied with the internal response to his complaints, he filed a complaint with the department’s inspector general.
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Missal was fired based on alleged misconduct discovered in the investigation. However, the Office of Special Counsel concluded the termination was retaliatory for his complaint to the inspector general.
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Missal was reinstated for 45 days in August 2017. The special counsel since then has obtained eight more stays of the firing while negotiating to resolve the case.
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“Whistleblowers must have confidence they can report wrongdoing without facing retaliation,” said Special Counsel Henry J. Kerner.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Former McCain staffer, Henry Kerner, a deep state bureaucrat, has oversight over whistleblowers and internal probes. This is no ordinary staffer. This man hates conservatives.
Senator John McCain’s Staff Director Henry Kerner urged the IRS’ Steve Miller and Lois Lerner to target the tea party and any conservative groups until its “financially ruinous”.
Henry Kerner is now in charge of all internal investigations in the government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3683820/posts
Alaska Ping.
I think there needs to be stricter definitions of whistleblower to encompass law breaking not for violations of their own beliefs or agency regulations.
Agency regulations are touchy. Agencies have the ability to waive regulations so long as it’s done in a non partisan non tit-for-tat favors and of course strictly non political.
McCain’s former high-ranking staffer Henry Kerner urged the IRS to target peaceful Conservatives: to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.”
President Trump, presumably unaware of these facts, appointed Kerner as Special Counsel for the United States Office of Special Counsel.
-2- “Sue and Settle” wherein the EPA invited radical groups to sue the EPA for perceived violations of EPA regs and not fight the suit. The result was massive cash infusion into the radical groups coffers.
Among the most unconstitutional things Congress has ever done is to continue to give the EPA & other rogue agencies the power to make rules and regulations with the weight of law.
USFS & BLM illegally closes public lands to the public - as if Congress had acted - thru Wilderness designations
Kerner, last name reminds me of an ex Illinois Governor. Any relation to Otto ?
Kerner, last name reminds me of an ex Illinois Governor. Any relation to Otto ? Link doesn’t work.
Of Illinois’ last seven governors, four have ended up going to prison.
Did not find any relations Henry Kerner to Otto.
This guy, Kerner, needs to be brought to POTUS attention.
Thanks.
The Office of Special Counsel ( Henry Kerner) also issued a report in which Henry Kerner concluded that Counselor to the President Kelly anne Conway violated the Hatch Act on two separate occasions in her capacity as a federal employee.
The White House, however, did not agree with his conclusions .
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3637662/posts
Didn’t catch that was the same guy. Even more reason for POTUS to deal with Henry Kerner.
Missal was fired in January 2016, but the board halted the termination in August 2017.
Just a reminder, the retaliatory firing happened during the Obamanation, y'know, when Biden was VP and the administration scandal-free? Thanks george76.
Being a whistleblower under Obama was guaranteed hell. He prosecuted more whistleblowers than all other Presidents combined. Little to no press coverage, of course.
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