WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- David B. Nolan, the Legal Director of the Federal Ethics Center, yesterday blasted the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) for embarrassing President Obama, our nation's chief law enforcement officer. "Fifty thousand complainants have raised one hundred thousand violations law to OSC, but the agency has achieved fewer than two hundred corrective actions since the 1978 passage of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA). Despite the affirmative duty to do so under 5 U.S.C. 1214(e), OSC has failed to report a single allegation of a prohibited personnel practice to a federal agency head," asserted reformer Nolan at his February 1 press conference.
Nolan announced the support of Time Magazine Woman of the Year and FBI whistleblower, Coleen Kelly, to fill the fourteen month vacancy to head the Office of Special Counsel. The former White House attorney Nolan has bipartisan support to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate to:
- Enforce the entirety of OSC obligations under the CSRA,
- Assist MPSB Chief Judge Susan Grundmann to conduct a "special study" of OSC to determine whether it is adequately protecting federal workers so as to be reauthorized by Congress, and
- Recommend to President Obama that he fulfills his campaign promise to replace Personnel Security Review Boards (PSRBs) by establishing new oversight concerning security clearance revocations.
Nolan praised President Obama for extending whistleblower protections to contractor employees at those federal agencies which receive federal stimulus funds. Under this authority, agency inspectors general must now address allegations that include the following:
- The failure of the Department of Energy (DOE) to enforce the EEOC and federal court settlement agreements of proposed class agent Dorothy Pritchett.
- The failure of Defense Department's Inspector General to investigate the waste, fraud and abuse complaint of class agent Lawrence C. Carter under the pretext that because he is black, he can only complain to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
- The riffing of DOE employee Joseph Santos for reporting the cover up of a felony cocaine conviction in the Energy Information Administration because the miscreant federal employee and felon cohabitates with a cousin of a powerful U.S. Senator.
- The Deputy Commander of the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), as the key note speaker at the Black History Month celebration at Fort Belvoir, raising his Klu Klux Klan grandpa.
SOURCE Federal Ethics Center
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