The systemic and persistent lawbreaking failure of the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and its attorneys to protect federal employees from prohibited personnel practices (PPP’s), particularly the whistleblower reprisal type PPP. (About 50% of OSC’s 110 employees are licensed attorneys, specifically hired to implement the law – 5 USC 1214 – to protect federal employees from PPP’s, but the legal profession claims its ethics do not apply to their failure to do so, the OSC attorneys apparently claim that legal ethics prohibits them from “blowing whistles” on their and OSC’s lawbreaking – does everything else that can gone wrong in federal agencies since 1989, when OSC was created, begin to come into focus?)
Therefore, part of the context that resulted in 9/11 as well as the personnel issues at TSA, stem from OSC’s failure to protect federal employees from PPP’s.
OSC Watch has 3 objectives: 1) expose OSC’s lawbreaking, 2) stop it, and 3)obtain some measure of justice for the 10,00 or more direct victims (every American is an indirect victim of OSC’s lawbreaking and attendant meltdown in legal ethics).
TSA’s personnel issues do not happen in a vacuum and cannot be fixed in isolation, OSC’s lawbreaking being exposed and stopped would have a very positive impact at TSA.
