Bloch blasts WSJ for ignoring WH’s conflict of interest.
Bloch blasts WSJ for ignoring WH’s conflict of interest.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that Office of Special Counsel chief Scott Bloch, who is “investigating Karl Rove’s White House political operation,” is facing allegations from the White House “that he improperly deleted computer files during another probe.” Today, Bloch writes a letter to the editor criticizing the paper for ignoring the White House’s own conflict of interest:
The director and inspector general of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have conflicts of interest making impartiality unlikely in their investigation. OPM helped craft my predecessor’s illegal policy on sexual-orientation discrimination, a policy I rescinded — the core of the complaint they are investigating (their contrary policy is still on their Web site). If the inspector general affirmed the legality of my action, he would face conflict with his supervisor, the OPM director, who has a stake in this matter. The inspector general is thus an interested party in a matter he is investigating. Moreover, if I find it necessary to appeal in federal court, the OPM director must approve, so an interested party could block my appeal. The White House is aware of these conflicts.
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Hey, at least they published the letter.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:10 pm"Moreover, if I find it necessary to appeal in federal court, the OPM director must approve, so an interested party could block my appeal. The White House is aware of these conflicts."
Indeed. I would go so far as to speculate that the White House is COUNTING ON these conflicts. It's their grand legal defense strategy.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:18 pmSome time far in the future, after mankind has decimated himself with technology, polarisation and greed, a race of peaceful very human-like archaeologists will sift thru the remains and wonder what the civilisation that dwelt here was like and why they went mad...and what the hell was this Rove creature, called a necessary evil by the Presidents wife?
December 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pmImpeach, then flush. Repeat.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:27 pmRovestink, all over the country.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:27 pmGee aren't computers great? No match, gas or a trashcan needed to get rid of the evidence.
December 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pmWell hey, Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ now ...why should them giving the WH a pass come as a surprise to anyone?
December 5th, 2007 at 2:02 pmI suppose the White House didn't know, or trust, anyone else who didn't have conflicts.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:08 pmWell... you have a PHONY PRESIDENT anyway!
December 5th, 2007 at 2:21 pmBackbiting Righty Cannibals- - shoot, that's better than a catfight!!!!
woooooooooo hoooooooooo baby!!!!!!!!!!
December 5th, 2007 at 2:29 pmWhat do you expect when you have a branch of the government 100 percent filled with crooks. Any investigation will pretty much leads to one crook having some conflict of interest with another crook.
December 5th, 2007 at 2:35 pm