May 05, 2008 04:50 PM
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building
NPR:
FBI agents on Tuesday raided the offices of Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch, who oversees protection for federal whistleblowers. The agents seized computers and shut down email service as part of an obstruction of justice probe, NPR has exclusively learned.
FBI agents also searched Bloch's home and a Special Counsel field office in Dallas. A grand jury in Washington issued subpoenas for several OSC employees, including Bloch, according to NPR sources who spoke on condition their names not be used.
Bloch, who has also been under investigation for allegedly retaliating against career employees and obstructing an investigation, was being questioned at his Washington, D.C. office on Tuesday morning, according to the NPR sources.
What, no suspicious fire?
Interesting
the us gestapo launches another raid
Why am i not surprized
Insane. The man investigating the DOJ for corruption in turn faces the FBI raiding his office on charges of corruption from the DOJ. Sometimes I feel like I'm reading a political thriller.
Krisken @ 4:
...or a slapstick dark comedy, if such a thing exists.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrrO0YjSes
NWO on the March
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
soon to be appearing in one of your neighborhoods
Sounds like some kind of internal beltway spittin contest? All I know is I'd like to read something similar with the raid and focus directed towards Dick Cheney and Gdub......Yea yea, I know...crazy talk... Who'd want to investigate those two?.. Why they're surely world class statesmen, compassionate guys you'd sit and have a beer with, and excellent leaders for a new age.... Didja like that one? Believe it? I got a bridge for sale too....cheap.....JD
Wow, are the Gestapo feeding on their own?
I am losing track. We are now up to a scandal a week. It used to be monthly. They must have enough now to create a reality show. "This Week in Scandals" starring (whomever just got hauled out in handcuffs) and narrated by Wolf Blitzer since he is never home anyway.
bushisaliar @ 8:
According to a senior government official who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations, "There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived 'enemies of the state' almost instantaneously." He and other sources tell Radar that the database is sometimes referred to by the code name Main Core. One knowledgeable source claims that 8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect. In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning and possibly even detention.
Hey, did Congress get Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton arrested yet?
Geeks on Call cleaned the guy's hard drive, huh? Wonder if that hard drive was his personal property?
We hope all the career patriots in the CIA, FBI and Justice Dept.
are safe from retaliation.
We are seeing more whistle blowers.
Time for all the investigators to create a system for Judiciary Committees.
With the real news, from criminal investigators and the whilstleblowers
1) Bush Administration Investigation Daily Feeds
2) Election and Criminal Lawsuits by State
3) Bush Crime Family Update Video of the Day
4) "Suicide Hit" Watch to protect the whistleblowers
"…or a slapstick dark comedy, if such a thing exists."
Try most anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
Bring it on.
Umm....
to the readers above, you do realize that Scott J. Bloch is a born and bred Bush Cronie, don't you?
He's the Clear Skies Initiative version of a Whistle Blowers Protector.
Heck of a job, Blochie.
From the website citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington (CREW) http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/31568
"The Wall Street Journal reported last year that Mr. Bloch had used "Geeks on Call," an outside computer-service firm, to erase his computer and those of two former staff members in December 2006. (See related article.)"
This administration is about obfuscation, deceit, immorality and the destruction of the fabric of this Nation. Shrub and Chain-y must be forced out of office soon or they will succeed in sucking us further into unending debt and war.
Old Billy Hussein @ 17:
Anyone who asks . . "What in the hell are you doing?" to the Government is considered unfriendly. Even if they ask nicely.
Is this the pot trying to call the kettle black or is the kettle doing the calling of the pot?
MSNBC has already started the autopsy of the elections today and the body won't be dead for another hour.
Who can believe or trust anything at face value from this government?
Not me.
Oops. I accidently deleted the contents of my entire hard-drive.
Accidently.
My bad.
Ummmmm...it was my understanding that once Bush appointed Bloch, he actually took his job seriously and was often at odds with Bush! Curious, if this is what happens when Shrub's flunkies don't play ball with him!
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists" - J. Edgar Hoover
From the Washington Post story today was this little tidbit:
"According to the source who has seen the subpoenas, the wide range of files that the FBI wants to see includes documents relating to the special counsel's investigation of Lurita Alexis Doan, who resigned last month as head of the General Services Administration, as well as an older investigation of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that has since been closed."
While on the surface this appears to be another Republicrook burning evidence, Bloch seems to have gotten on the list over at the WH for his digging to closely to Rove's machinations at the GSA. He refused to provide some files back in the Fall and now that Crazy Lurita Mita Maid has hit the bricks, the Feds want to be sure of what exactly are in the files...in case the scorned Doan (forced to resign last week) decides to tell her tale...
Or not.
L.A. Confidential @ 25:
And the conspirators are faced with a incalculable universe so monstrous it cannot believe it exists.
LOL
Bloch was either desperate or dumb as a rock to have hire the Geeks. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if they blew the whistle on him. After all, what they did was illegal. It's a reasonable assumption they were unaware of that fact. It's also reasonable to assume that they were soon afterwards enlightened, probably after talking shop with some wiser colleagues. One of these days Bush's luck just might run out, and some clown like Bloch will spill his guts rather than endure a long stretch in prison.
L.A. Confidential @ 12:
There is a big problem with them implementing this, they go through with it and the contract between gov and the general mass of citizens is broken.
Americans will object strongly, traditional conservatives, libertarians, and liberals will not be amused, prob 80% of the country will be having sh1tfits.
Old Billy Hussein @ 17:
Would be interesting in a hypothetical way, would the mass of Americans be that outraged to resist the police and the feds.
TSop @ 26:
Doan was only forced out after the GAOs report on federal credit card fraud was published.
40% of the 16 billion dollars spent through CCs by federal employees is suspect, either outright theft of goods bought or minimalist documentation.
nearly six billions dollars in ipods laptops digital cameras and other goods bought by federal CC and missing.
Old Billy Hussein @ 13:
Who are they??? GO MILEY CYRUS!
Jaycubed @ 16:
Yes, indeed it feels very Vonnegut, in it's absurdity, and how it can, and must exist.
And so it goes...
At the rate the Bush administration is destroying documents the putative Bush library is likely to consist of The Pet Goat and George's coloring books.
The GAO did a random check of 2.7 million dollars of federal CC spending and found the 40% missing items.
For purchases over $2,500, nearly half — or 48% — were unauthorized or improperly received.
Out of a sample of purchases totaling $2.7 million, the government could not account for hundreds of laptop computers, iPods and digital cameras worth more than $1.8 million. In one case, the U.S. Army could not say what happened to computer items making up 16 server configurations, each of which cost nearly $100,000.
Agencies often could not provide the required paperwork to justify questionable purchases. Investigators also found that federal employees sometimes double-billed or improperly expensed lavish meals and Internet dating for many months without question from supervisors; the charges were often noticed only after auditors or whistle-blowers raised questions.
This is how our taxpayer dollars is spent and mislaid by greedy gov employees buying PCs and other goodies for home use.
Are you angry or upset, or does it really matter, do they deserve free laptops (for home use) and ipods on the taxpayer purse !?
Peter G @ 35:
We won't much care about a library when the world's main concern becomes getting the population below 500,000,000. Don't believe me, but don't say I didn't warn you.
I guess Bloch's computer must have gotten the 'virus' from Rove's computer, which explains why it had to be errased?
Bloch retaliates against career employees and low and behold these career employees have friends in the FBI. This is the problem with political appointees. They get put in charge of these agencies and they actually think that they are in charge.
The Tip of an Ice-Burg of inside Political Corruption. The had the Geek squad in Earlier cleaning the office PC. Hopefully enough information was caught on Employee Lap-Tops to fry this bunch. This kind of thing is just like the Alberto Gonzales thing of firing people for political reasons, or anyone who doesn't go by the GOP playbook.
I wonder how much more lies beneath this.
This would be good news to me if I didn't know that the FBI and the Justice Department were also crooked. Now I'm just wondering what the angle is.
While the steam from the GSA dung heap hangs fresh, watch for misdirection. Bloch was involved in exposing FAA safety violations last month which left thousands stranded. Did he botch the obstruction then and find his payoff today?
http://schema-root.org/region/americas/north_america/usa/government/offi...
john @ 41:
I think it has something to do with this.
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/04/bloch.html
....Can't....take...the...corruption..much...longer...must...vote...soon(gasps)
ferrofluid @ 29:
And we would have never invaded Iraq either or allowed the Detention and Torture of American Citizens (Padilla) or Suspension of the Fourth Amendment or......
CDB @ 45:
slight difference when the armed thugs are grabbing your neighbors family and friends and putting them in trucks.
so BFD. The FBI is in bed with BFEE and the CIA, they're doing it for show.
Oh come on,
The office of a man who leads protection services for people who blow the whistle on government corruption was raided?
I agree with bushisaliar @ 3,
GESTAPO indeed.
Scott J. Bloch, head of the OSC, father of seven, and reluctant -- it would appear -- investigator and enforcer of the the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the Hatch Act, the three federal statutes he's charged to monitor. Violations such as workplace improprieties, including a violation of law, rule or regulation, gross mismanagement and waste of funds, abuse of authority, or a substantial danger to public health or safety are his balliwick.
You mean, the FBI is actually working on a case that doesn't kow-tow to the Bush/Cheney regime?!
Well, halleluja, if this is true! Does this mean that Mueller has had enough? And how is it that Bush/Cheney didn't replace him before he pulled this off?
I Like Pie @ 43:
Wow. That is nuts. IF the FBI hadn't raided his office, I would have figured he was just scrubbing things to get rid of evidence and create the impression of an independent review. Now, I don't know what the hell is going on.
Nancy, I think we could use a little help on this one. MAybe the Senate could look at it. Waxman?
goodgirlroxie @ 50:
I think you mean Mukasey, and I wouldn't trust him.
The Republicans are not a political party.
They are a criminal enterprise.
A gang.
Old Billy Hussein @ 51:
My moneys on the DoJ closing down the investigations of the breakings of the Hatch act, as the DoJ is one of the Bushcos worst offenders in this aspect this makes sense.
They are after the mail server and files to silence the whistleblowers.
Breaking Omerta seems to be the worst crime in the eyes of Bushco, people could go to jail !!! the horror
Old Billy Hussein @ 52:
No, I meant FBI Director Mueller.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION
ROTTEN
TO
THE CORE
it would be naive to think, at this point, that this has anything to do with justice . . . still, it's sweet to think of at least one bushie minion pissing himself because his co-conspirators have turned on him
xoites (Bitter before Country was Cool) defends Constitution @ 53:
Wouldn't RICO apply?
Peter G @ 58:
DoJ is Bushco and xtian fundie to the core.
Peter G @ 58:
Yes, it would, but first you would need a RICO investigation of the Dept. of Justice. After cleaning out the party hacks, you can then go after the present Executive Branch and the Republican Party.
This would set an excellent precedent, and would also provide a powerful incentive for the Democrats to keep their hands clean when they take the reins of power.
ferrofluid @ 46:
They'll just wait to grab you at the Airport, Insurance\DWI checkpoint, your next "Traffic" stop, ......No need to go to your home.
I Like Pie @ 43:
Thanks for the slice! This is also what I had heard in regards to this investigation. He's gotten too close to Rove. They want to Seigleman his ass.
I admit I've been struggling with this one, but I think we may be over-thinking this.
It may be something as simple as all the foxes in he henhouse hearing the coming steps of the farmer, and each trying to push one another out the door to be the first one to face the axe. Maybe they figure the farmer will be satisfied with just the one fox, and not try to pursue the rest into the woods, so long as the henhouse is currently fox-free.
The problem is, once the fox gets a taste of the henhouse, he wants another, and another, and another, until the hens are no more.
With apologies to Vonnegut, the FBI can take a flying f*ck on a rolling donut, they can take a flying f*ck at the moon!
another scandal and another 'nothing to be done' event.
innocent bystander @ 57:
more like the Fucking Blithering Idiots will help hide the bodies.
no one in the white house will be able to comment on an "ongoing investigation", got it?
waxman will make a lot of noise. and then ...
BaScOmBe against Bitter Elitist Bullshit @ 68:
some clips will appear on CrooksAndLiarsDotCom
I'd read about the raid, but just heard about Mr. Bloch's investigation of Karl Rove's involvement in the Attorney General purge tonight at a book signing featuring Mark Crispin Miller & Scott Horton in NYC. The Mother Jones article does a great job of laying out the characters and plot. I think they're beginning to eat their own.
Karl Rove is behind the caging, and this guy wiped the evidence that proves it!
time to take the bushites to the cleaners, Impeachments are being delivered as we speak!
I also noticed that none of the articles about today's FBI raid mention that Bloch was deep into this particular investigation.
People, there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for all of this. Scott J. Bloch is a loyal Bushie who was breaking the law to protect other loyal Bushies. There you go, see? Perfectly reasonable, no real news here.
KO @ 72:
that's because that "investigation" is year-old news. it was deep-sixed months ago. nobody in the bush adminstration is quaking in their boots over that one. read the dates on things, people.
Thank you FOIA, may God bless your lovely soul. And you, above all others, know that I thank you from the BOTTOM of my golden heart. I needed to get a good rest. Tomorrow /today is a brand new day.
I Like Pie @ 43:
Oh. I see.
Now I can sleep at night secure in my suspicion of the Bush crime family.
Bloch and his Ave Maria "lawyers" are going to get Domino's pizza delivered to the pen. Wow.
I hadn't heard of this guy until today. Seems to be a real dirtbag and an idiot. How stupid do you have to be to hire IT guys on your government credit card to erase your hard drives? Another homophobic, right wing, religious moron appointed by the worst president in American history.
Heckuva job, Blochy!
I hope the SOB rots in jail. Just another asterisk in the sad history of a President and an administration that sacrificed competency for cronyism and an ideological agenda.
CaptStumpy @ 23:
I hate it when that happens.
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