Uncle Jay explains where our taxpayer dollars go

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Government Corruption & Outsourcing Our Financial Security

By Larry Fisher

Remember Katrina, FEMA, and Michael Brown and the media attention involving his lack of credentials to do his job. Consider a government-wide practice that routinely pays six figure salaries to political appointees and career bureaucrat financial managers with no 4-year college accounting degrees or CPA certificates. We need to question this time honored practice that costs us untold billions of dollars each year (and now) because this Country’s financial security is in peril.

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Department of Interior-Bureau of Land Management Redding office

Traci Hallstrom, a Federal whistleblower, also one of the six original EEO complainant’s and who is the only one left from the original EEO Class complaint who hasn’t backed out, quit, fired, or took another federal job elsewhere; is still getting reprised against for filing protected activity since May 9th, 2005.

Ms Halstrom had her EEOC Hearing during the week of April 24th, 2007 and has still not received a final decision from the Administrative Judge. The AJ had until October 19th, 2007 (180 days) to reach a decision. It has now been over 250 days and still no word. The Office of Special counsel closed Ms Hallstrom’s case because they said they do not get involved in EEO cases. If that is indeed the case then they should remove the clause on their website that they do investigate EEO cases of reprisal.

To: Deena Wilson, EEO Manager, CA BLM State Office
Louis Demas, Complainant’s attorney
CA BLM DOI Solicitor Kevin Mack
EEOC Administrative Judge Jeanne Player

From: Traci Hallstrom, EEO Complainant, BLM Redding, CA Field office

I am filing more EEO complaints with the basis of reprisal on the following:

1) On Monday November 26th, 2007 my supervisor Mike Hoffman emailed
myself and Admin Tech Cindy Person a memo on Workplace Conduct. I feel
this was focused on me because no one else in the office received the memo
and a memo of this kind has never been sent to me in my entire BLM career
and it also violated the Master Union Labor Agreement in which the Union
is filing an Unfair Labor Practice.

2) On Tuesday November 27th, 2007 my supervisor Mike Hoffman emailed
me a revised EPAP adding a Critical Element #5. He also added the same
word for word Critical Element #5 to Cindy Person the Admin Tech. Both of
our Critical Elements #5 were worded exactly the same, however our
Performance Standards were vastly different making my standards impossible
to achieve anything higher than Fully Successful.

******Please Note that in the early hours of November 28th, 2007 I was
seen in the ER at SMRC and then admitted for a mild heart attack due to
occupational stress.

3) On December 3rd, 2007 I filed the proper forms with the CA BLM
State Office HR to go on the voluntary leave share program. My request
was delayed by Mike Hoffman, Field manager Steve Anderson and Asst. field
manager Francis Berg from the Redding field office until December 12th,
2007 which created any chance of more donations that I could have
received.

4) During the week of December 10th, 2007, Assistant field Manager
Francis Berg wrote a memo to the State Office to have me removed from the
BLM system so I could no longer have access to any BLM computer, my work
emails, and all work programs from any BLM computer. This was
inappropriate. Mr. Berg also made copies and placed them in the General
filing box. This violated my privacy. I also should have received a copy
of this memo to my home address and I have not.

5) On December 3rd, 2007 I filed a CA-2 Claim #132183400 with Virginia
Horton the OWCP coordinator on the basis of occupational stress. To this
day, December 18th, 2007 I still have not received a signed copy from my
supervisor Mike Hoffman acknowledging that he received my CA2. He was
mailed a copy via USPS and also in the SMIS system and has never sent me
my receipt of acknowledgment.

6) During the week of December 3rd, 2007, Supervisor Bill Kuntz
removed my personal items from my desk (my plants) and Admin Tech Cindy
Person were laughing about my plants and moving them. They are no longer
at my desk. I am not sure what else of my personal belongings were
removed, but I was never notified.

I am also sending a copy of this email to BLM Solicitor Kevin Mack and
EEOC Administrative Judge Jeanne Player so that everyone is above board on
the events that have been taking place and no one is being left out of the
loop.

Thank you,

Traci Hallstrom

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Just for the record

Here’s three PDF documents from Joe Carson.

http://oscwatch.org/pdf/What_Happens_Dec_07%5B1%5D.pdf
http://oscwatch.org/pdf/salazar_07-2573.pdf
http://oscwatch.org/pdf/salazar_06_1108.pdf

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Podcast No. 1 - OSCwatch.org co-founder, Joe Carson.

Interview with Joe Carson on his background and the purpose of the organisation he co-founded. This first podcast is an ideal introduction for anyone who is new to OSCwatch.org and it’s aims. Playtime is just over 40 minutes.

If you want to take part in future OSCwatch.org podcasts, or you want more information, please read the updated F.A.Q’s. page here

 

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Office of Special Counsel sees progress in Hatch Act probe

Since 2005, the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general has been looking into whether Bloch dismissed whistleblower cases without enough examination and retaliated against employees who opposed his policies.

Read the whole story here

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arstechnica.com covers Scott Bloch hard drive wipe

From arstechnica.com
The head of the Office of Special Counsel who is currently leading an investigation into allegations against Karl Rove is taking fire over allegations that he improperly and illegally disposed of documents and files. Since this is the sort of nonsense that only makes sense if you live inside the Ultimate RDF generator (i.e., inside the Beltway), I’ll take a moment and break things down.

Read full arstechnica.com article…

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Spread the word

There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites on the internet which you’d be forgiven for thinking were purpose designed to spread the word of activism organisations like ours.

Here’s a guide for those of you not “up” on the world of so-called Web 2.0, on how easy and quick it can be to send hundreds, if not thousands of eyes and ears our way, to inform and educate the world about whistle-blower’s concerns, individual cases and all issues surrounding OSCWatch.org’s aims.

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Welcome to OSCwatch.org

We’ve launched!

Please feel free to browse around the various sections of this site and keep an eye out on this front page for regular blog entries from your team of volunteers and whistle-blowers.

There is a talk-back forum for you to share your stories and activism information as well as many existing articles being added all the time to the ‘Uncovering the corruption’ pages, linked opposite.

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