Dear Advocate for Merit-Based Federal Civil Service,

OSC Watch is a group of concerned current or former federal employees who claim that the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has failed to comply with aspects of its non-discretionary duties as an investigatory agency to the 10,000 or more federal employees who sought its protection from prohibited personnel practices (PPP’s), particularly the whistleblower reprisal type PPP, since being created as an independent agency in 1989.

OSC Watch has 3 objectives:

1) expose OSC’s lawbreaking, 2 stop it, and 3) obtain some measure of justice for the direct victims of OSC’s lawbreaking since 1989. To advance those ends, OSC Watch has prepared the attached petition to Congress, which already has an impressive list of names on it. OSC Watch has decided to keep the petition open until COB on March 31, 2008 so more parties - people or organizations can join it. Following that, it will be sent to Congress.Additional parties will be able to join following March 31, 2008 and subsequent revisions of the petition will show the parties who joined after March 31, 2008.

OSC Watch accepts that some of the petition’s claims could be dispelled via Congressional oversight and that some parties might want to qualify their endorsement of the entire petition.It is fine for a party to add qualifying language as “agrees in principle, but not necessarily with every particular claim” in joining the petition.

The petition is just that - a petition - intended to spur the Congressional oversight necessary to substantiate or dispel its claims and, if substantiated (in whole or part), to spur additional appropriate Congressional action.Parties that wish to join the petition can do so via the OSC Watch website or by sending an email to Traci Hallstrom, the Communication Director for OSC Watch traci.hallstrom@gmail.com.

OSC Watch much appreciates GAP’s support of the principles of this petition and its objectives and the interest POGO has shown in it too.

Respectfully,

Traci Hallstrom
Communication Director, OSC Watch.org

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