Senator Alexander of Tennessee intervened to get the quetions on the petition submitted to OSC. This happened in early April, subsequent to a Senate hearing on reauthorizing OSC and MSPB. When OSC's responses are available, I will post them.
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May 02, 2007
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Petitions for Congressional Oversight of OSC
Recent Posts
- To Counsel Jarrett, Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility
- Attorney General and Prohibited Personnel Practices (PPP's)
- OSC apparently "dumps" 40 or more investigations of agency FOIA malfeasance
- Special Counsel Bloch's response to Federal Times "Commentary"
- The New Republic piece on "Whistleblower Week in Washington"
- join amicus curiae - "friend of court" brief in Carson v. MSPB?
- Federal Times Commentary about OSC
- results of petition
- online petition available!
- OSC and MSPB collude to violate the "protections guaranteed" by WPA
blogroll
websites
- Whistleblowers - USA
- National Whistleblowers Center (NWC)
- Carson v. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Support Teresa Chambers
- OSC's issues since 2004, compiled by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
- Jesselyn Radack's CRADL Home Page
- Integrity International (II)
- THOMAS (Library of Congress)
- The American Whistleblowers' League (AWL)
- National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC)
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
- The Project On Government Oversight (POGO)
- GAP - Government Accountability Project
OSC Annual Reports to Congress
related documents
- 5 USC 2302 - personnel actions, prohibited prohibited personnel practices, agency heads responsibilities to prevent PPP's.
- 5 USC 2301 - the No FEAR Act requirements are in the amendment section at end
- 5 U.S.C. 1212 - duties and powers of OSC
- 5 U.S.C. 1219 - law regarding OSC public records
- 5 U.S.C. 1218 - law for OSC annual reports to Congress
- Excerpt of OSC 1989 Annual Report to Congress, its first as an independent agency
- 5 CFR 1820.1 - access to OSC public documents
- 5 USC 1214 which details OSC's obligations to protect federal employees from PPP's. See the amendment section at end for the "terminaition statement"
- 5 U.S.C. 1201 - OSC's purpose and priorities are detailed in its amendment section at end
- Special Counsel Bloch lauding OSC's "heroic" protection of "lamplighters shining light of truth"
- OSC claims of judicial immunity
- excerpts of 1996 OSC annual report to Congress
- "list of matters" per 5 USC 1219, FY 1989 to 2003
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