Although I am glad to see you rushing in to protect our wrongly fired U.S. Attorneys, I must ask you – WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? The very same political network, “good old boy clique,” that fired these attorneys, has been around for years attacking other federal government employees who dare to speak out against wrongdoing. Yet you, dear Congress, have done nothing to protect these brave souls who dare become National Security Whistleblowers.

Currently there is no real whistleblower protection for government employees on the front line of our national security (Border Patrol Agents, Customs Agents, Transportation Security Agents, etc.). Many of these government employees have endured wrongful firings, harassment, threats, and other retaliation on an enormous scale for simply doing the right thing. They have witnessed extreme instances of waste, fraud, abuse and corruption that they are required by law to report. For many of them, what they have witnessed are criminal acts by their mid-level and sometimes very high-level managers. If they don’t report these abuses, they the employees may be criminally charged with a felony (Misprision of Felony). Yet when they do the right thing, the whistleblowers are most certain to be severely retaliated against by the people benefiting from the wrongdoing.

Moreover, this has been documented and presented to Congress repeatedly by numerous organizations like The Government Accountability Project (GAP), the Project On Government Oversite (POGO), and the Patrick Henry Center. All three of these organizations list scores of National Security Whistleblowers that have testified repeatedly before Congress in different forums (e.g. the 911 Commission; the Blue Ribbon Commission; Whistleblower Counsel). Yet the Whistleblower Protection Act that was authored and sponsored by Senators Akaka and Grassley, and has passed the Senate, sits idle for months now on the House floor.

As you rush to protect these more powerful federal government employees (U.S Attorneys) who are often hand picked by their home state Senators, remember, there are others who have suffered much more because they have risks much more via the national security issues that they have reported. I doubt that these U.S. Attorneys will have to file bankruptcy because they are being “blackballed” by corrupt government officials, in the same way that National Security Whistleblowers do. I doubt that these U.S. Attorneys will fear the threats and intimidation to themselves and their families; repeated frivolous internal affairs investigations; the passing over of earned promotions, and numerous other tools that government managers have at their disposal to discredit whistleblowers and SHUT THEM UP.

Yet you, Congress, point the “Political Finger” at the folks who have fired these U.S. Attorneys, while you sit and allow much worse behavior to continue for others. Maybe someone should wave that same “Political Finger” back at themselves. Why is it that the U.S. Attorneys have been given preferential treatment over other government employees who, quite frankly, have put their necks much more on the line for this country than the U.S. Attorneys?

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that the firing of these attorneys is political, morally wrong, and perhaps illegal – BUT SO WHAT! Why are you rushing to their aid over the dead bodies of National Security Whistleblowers who were also government employees – and I do mean literally dead bodies. Numerous whistleblowers have had their lives so destroyed by doing the right thing, that they have died of heart problems due to stress, and/or have committed suicide. The whistleblower cases that I have witnessed, including my own, are much more egregious and appalling than what has happened to the U.S. Attorneys. One may conclude that the answer to this question is that U.S. Attorneys are simply more powerful in their positions, and can be of more assistance to Congress in said positions – hence fostering the notion that this sudden interest for Congress to protect them is merely POLITICAL! Therefore, while you waive the “Political Finger” at this administration for firing these attorneys, please take a close look in the mirror at the other end of that very same finger – which is pointing straight back at you! I would encourage you to provide protection to ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, not just the influential ones.

Sincerely,

Darlene Fitzgerald
National Security Whistleblower & proud of it
Author: “BorderGate, the story the government doesn’t want you to read”
http://www.BorderGate.net

Bluedog49, I readily agree that there is a difference between firing some US attorneys 6+ years into an administration and firing all at the beginning of one.

Perhaps there was a need for “cleaning house” (as you put it) when Mr. Clinton took office that justified firing every sitting US attorney on day 1, but then again, perhaps it was just political payback. No matter what the justification, it was an action that ignored 200+ years of restraint by Democratic and Republican administrations, alike. In fact, not even the Federalists and anti-Federalists saw fit to conduct wholesale dismissals of US attorneys when administrations changed. I find it odd that those on the left, generally considered to be good-government types, had nothing to say about that action at the time.

We will have to part company on your other contention that “none of these attorneys were involved with cases involving corruption related to his administration”. Although technically correct the way you stated it (His administration has just begun and therefore had no opportunity for corruption.) there were active investigations into Mr./Mrs. Clinton at the time of the mass firing. A quick check of the history of the Resolution Trust Corporation will show that several criminal referrals involving the Clintons and/or their business partners and acquaintances were in process at the time.

Wait, wait, I know the answer. Is it “spouting crap out of your mouth?”

I agree that had the administration followed in the steps of the Clinton administration and fired all the AGs outright at the beginning of his term, this would not have been such a big deal. But to explicitly fire them regardless of the quality of the job they are doing to install “proteges” is at best suspect and at worst the height of corruption and arrogance signalling the end of the empire.

How twisted. Do you have amnesia? America did vote for impeachment. But Nancy doesn’t want to recognise that. But she will have no choice soon. And Dems have quite a few ways to get out of Iraq, but Georgie doesn’t want to listen and wants to do it his way.

We know that the Republicans do not support the troops in action. They just say that they do, and then cut off their supplies and stuff. Republicans think that the more soldiers that die, then the better America is. Twisted.

Liberals Heart Terrorists, Are you even paying attention or just spouting crap out of your mouth?

Just what kind of twisted logic is this? Republicans put the troops in danger but since Democrats want them out of danger, then more Americans die? This is so stupid it defies explanation. If someone wants the war to end, it does not “embolden the enemy” and make more Americans die. In fact, I’ll bet the enemy (who ever that is) doesn’t even know that the poster wants the war to stop.

People like “Liberals Heart Terrorists ” who try to disquise their hatred by putting blame on others are the worst kind of scoundrels on this planet. They just want to kill anyone who is not their race. They are racists plain and simple. They want to kill ALL the Muslims because somewhere, someone blamed a false flag operation on a few of them. They want to Kill everyone of that race because they all need a lynching to satisfy thier lust for blood and violence. These kind of people are the worse in the world and should be elliminated or they will cause more bloodshed up the road.

my apologies for the double post…

…this delay is maddening!

Daniel G. Bogden, former U.S. Attorney in Nevada

Mr. Bogden,

…Bush, Cheney, et al are the enemy…