The Link

Here is the link for the story about Hillary and her closet cleaning. It was from People magazine -- March 23, 2011.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20475554,00.html

I just finished reading Partners in Power: the Clintons and Their America by Roger Morris. It is a very well written book -- but depressing. It is just sad that we seem to get suckered into electing people who have such pitiful moral standing. Democrat or Republican there is very little difference. They are all bought and paid for by the moneyed elite. Bill Clinton is a sex maniac. Hillary is something of a self-deceived crook.

My own sad experience with Secretary Clinton is caught up in plausible deniability. Why would the Secretary of State concern herself with a glassware contract? Why indeed? That is a good question. Maybe someone could ask her. I am sure it will not be me. So I will just have to tell my side of the story.

This is where the long seedy record of mischief making by Hillary makes it hard to get any traction. If she can get away with everything she has gotten away with so far, why not this? Indeed why not?

Hillary thought that she could kick me to the curb without giving me another thought. But I am not gone because I was told that I would be protected as a whistleblower. I read it on the Office of Special Counsel website. Don't say it if it isn't true.

I just have one question for Hillary, the champion of women and children. Aint I a woman?

Hillary's Closet Cleaning

Last March we learned that Hillary Clinton will not be staying on at State if Barack Obama is re-elected. When asked what she would do instead she said she would sleep and clean her closets. I am not making this up. I will cite the article presently.

To the attuned observer the question then was, what could this possible mean? We know that Hillary has a lot of skeletons in her closet. I am hoping mine will remain outside of it. My thought was that Hillary was not believable. I questioned those with an opinion and learned that most did not believed that she would try to run against Barack Obama. I later learned that perhaps she would be put in charge of the World Bank. OMG! It is true that the World Bank is run to benefit the rich and powerful and that is clearly what Hillary is about too. But could this possibly be true?

Then I heard that Hillary might -- just might -- want to run for president of these United States of America, a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. Obama is bought and paid for by them, but he is getting a lot of people upset as they realize his callow hypocrisy. Hillary probably thinks her hypocrisy will be less transparent.

The petty crimes that I has a brush with in the Obama administration have to be laid at the feet of Hillary Clinton. Although I welcome her departure from the Department of State, I would HOPE that she will never become president. It seems to me that she does not have an honest bone in her body. I will try to organize my thoughts presently to tell how it is that I believe that my humble little program that should have been of no interest to her fell prey to Hillary and I became collateral damage.

Senate Panel Questions Whether $3.1 Billion in 'Drug War' Contracts Were Worthwhile

Senate Panel Questions Whether $3.1 Billion in 'Drug War' Contracts Were Worthwhile


Mr. Peacock, I would like to know where you got the information about the glassware contract solicitation / award that you provided 4/11/2011. If you are interested, I have tales to tell. I am not sure how to contact you. You can reach me at dorie.southern@gmail.com

Plausible deniability

I do not own a tinfoil hat. I am not sure what one is or why one would want to own one. But I can tell you that there is such a thing as conspiracies and plausible deniability. In a nutshell plausible deniability means that there is no paper trail. Therefore, there is no way to prove that what you say happened happened. On the other hand there are lots of reasons why what you say happened did not happen. If you are a government employee, there are certain things that you learn, certain things that you know due to your work, and certain things that you pick up on the street. Some may be true, some may be partly true and partly false, and some of it might be wrong altogether. But most likely you are not in a position to investigate and prove something one way or another. Therefore, any hypothesis that you put forth becomes a conspiracy theory and you are thought to be the owner of a tinfoil hat. This becomes inevitable if you cannot find a political link that makes the so-called opposition parties oppose each other. Instead, it becomes a bipartisan cover-up.

As yet, I have not found any traction from anyone wanting to know why my situation transpired the way that it did. As a novice whistleblower, I did not understand any of this. I am learning as I go. Since I lost my job to whistleblowing there is nothing to stop me from goading the people responsible for what happened. Meanwhile, they are trying desperately to pretend I don't exist, with some success I might add.

Whistleblowing in the government

If you are a government employee, you may be informed that there is protection for whistleblowers provided by the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), which is a quasi government agency intended to enforce certain OPM rules. Although protection for whistleblowers is one of the stated reasons for the existence of the OSC, its actual record protecting whistleblowers is horrible. The number of whistleblowers it has protected is minuscule. Satistics will have to be provided later.

Generally what it does is conclude that evidence was not provided to "prove" that one has experienced reprisal as a whistleblower. For example, one might report waste, fraud, or abuse or some combination thereof to the agency Office of the Inspector General. That, my friend, is a black-hole from which your report will not return. You supervisor will learned through sources and methods that you have gone to the OIG. You will then find that all sorts of untoward things will happen -- like your performance will need improvement or your duties will be stripped from you or you will be sent off on a detail.

As someone who experienced the detail thing, let me tell you that it will not be because the OIG is investigating and trying to protect you while doing so. No, the reason will be because the office you work for is busy on the fraud that you have reported and finds you a pesky problem.

Various things will happen depending on the agency you work for and the crimes that you have unexpectedly stumbled upon. As a government employee you will find preciously little protection. If you have the misfortune of being a third-party contractor, you are toast. Suddenly in the middle of the project that you are working on you are no longer needed.

Congress has passed a Whistleblower Protection Act. It is supposed to protect almost all Whistleblowers. But what I can't understand is -- if whistleblowers are protected, why was I forced out of my job at the Department of State for blowing the whistle? Something just does not add up.

This is just the first installment in a very long and complex story of waste, fraud, and abuse that goes from the top to the bottom. Hillary Clinton being at the top in this story and me being at the bottom.

It's been a while.

The State Department is still moving along with a rather checkered record dealing with employees. It seems that the Department seems most interested in keeping the GS-06s and below in line. The word on the street is that management in OBO is trying to fire a GS-03 for not working hard enough. Hum. The tales we could tell of managers who are mismanaging who are protected at all cost. That is one of life's little ironies.

AFGE 1534 tries but is surely our numbered and out foxed most of the time. Most Department employees realize that associating with AFGE is not the road to career enhancement. That is because AFGE is trying to stand up for the small fish who the Department wishes to fry. Barack Obama's goals for hiring are tossed to the wind in those cases because nine times out of ten the employee being fired or forced out is minority or has a disability.

I was an exception to that rule.

News from AFGE National

President Obama Wants to Hire 100,000 Employees with Disabilities: President Barack Obama July 26 issued an executive order directing agencies to hire 100,000 people with disabilities over the next five years in an attempt to make the federal government a model for the employment of individuals with disabilities. President Obama said President Bill Clinton first set a five year goal of hiring 100,000 people with disabilities in the final year of his administration, but the Bush administration did not follow up. President Obama directed the Office of Personnel Management, Office of Management and Budget, Labor Department, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to design model recruitment and hiring strategies for agencies to use to increase their employment of people with disabilities within 60 days. Within 120 days after OPM has set forth strategies, each agency will develop an agency-specific plan for promoting employment opportunities for people with disabilities, who currently represent just over 5 percent of the nearly 2.5 million federal employees. The president said agencies should increase their use of Schedule A excepted service hiring authority to hire more people with disabilities, and increase their participation in internships, fellowships, training and mentoring programs.

AFGE: EEOC's 45th Anniversary Should Mark End of Backlog: As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is kicking off its 45th anniversary celebration, the agency should use this opportunity to mark the end of backlog and hire enough employees to do the work so that people who've filed discrimination claims don't have to wait nine months or more for help, said Gabrielle Martin, president of AFGE's National Council of EEOC Locals. EEOC's 2011 budget request confirms that the small civil rights agency faces an influx of more than 100,000 newly filed discrimination charges and an equal or greater backlog. A multi-year hiring freeze resulted in the loss of over 25 percent of the EEOC employees, mostly frontline staff. Despite recent hiring, net staffing increases have barely budged. Congress has also charged the EEOC with enforcing three new laws.
"The backlog not only delays help to workers facing discrimination, but it can affect the quality of service," Martin said. "Unfortunately, we're seeing the same old management pressure on EEOC employees to dump cases off the books before the end of the fiscal year. The focus needs to be on the sharp contrast between this anniversary hoopla and the real challenges."