In my last post, I read the L.A. Times article about the investigation of Rove, and felt excited. Was it possible that there would be a real investigation. So I wrote my first few paragraphs? Then I looked up the Office of Special Counsel. I wondered, "Had someone found an Agency uncontaminated by the Administration?" and wrote some more. Then, I put Scott Bloch into Google, and found that others had already discovered that he was a Republican Operative extrordinaire.What I hate is being put in the position of being cynical enough these days to be Googling Scott Bloch immediately to be sure this isn’t a fraudulent investigation to run out their clock in office and cover-up the whole thing. I hate that they’ve done this to us – turned us into a bunch of reflex paranoids. Only, unfortunately, we’re "pseudo-paranoid," because, as usual, our skepticism and suspicions turn out to be right.
You know, after I saw that article, got excited and then posted it here I had the same experience. I started thinking, “Who is this guy?” and it didn’t take long to find out. DAMN THEM!!! Now all I can think is, “What’s the angle?”
As soon as I saw that the Office of Special Counsel was gong to “investigate,” I knew it was a diversionary setup. This guy Bloch has been notorious for thwarting any serious investigation of whistleblowers, the real reason his agency exists. Almost immediately after he was appointed, he announced that he was no longer going to enforce the executive order prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in federal agencies, and transferred those who objected to the least desirable positions within his agency. This will turn out to be nothing more than a whitewash, and used by the administration to argue that they are in fact investigating themselves.