ATF Whistle-Blower Alleges Backlash

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Edgar A. Domenech says he thought Justice Department officials would welcome information about mismanagement at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Instead, the 23-year ATF veteran says, Justice officials ignored his complaints and later retaliated against him by demoting him, denying him a bonus and attempting to give him a poor job review.

"I realized I was committing career suicide at the time, but I felt I had a moral obligation as the deputy director to protect the agency and the men and women of the agency," Domenech said in an interview yesterday. "In retrospect, I was naive to believe that the department would welcome my honesty."

Domenech filed a 13-page complaint yesterday with the Office of Special Counsel, saying that ATF and the Justice Department punished him for raising questions about the performance of former ATF director Carl J. Truscott, who resigned in August 2006 while under investigation for alleged financial mismanagement.

Washington Post

Whistleblowers are unsung heroes/heroines who often mistakenly believe that the system of checks and balances works.

The first question an individual should ask before acting on the need for honesty with the government is, 'Is my financial house in order'?

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1. They DO NOT Like Whistleblowers

Please dont anyone think for a moment that the feds like whistleblowers. On the surface, they say how much they appreciate and welcome people who expose corruption, mishandling etc. In private, whole different story.

Good example, remember this phrase. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" no, but my cigar did. And whatever happened to the woman who exposed it all. Just my point, cant even remember her name.