An FBI Whistleblower's Experience: Jane Turner's Blog
By: Jane Turner
I find that the most amazing part of being an FBI whistleblower is watching while FBI managers who are directly involved in misconduct, malfeasance, obstruction, or criminal activity--which whistleblowers bring to light--are rewarded, promoted, and/or given bonuses. The Director of the FBI did not even have the common courtesy to exile the guilty parties to Butte, Montana or Minot, North Dakota. He allows them to continue to be elevated into the highest ranks of the FBI, receiving all the benefits that those lofty positions bring.
For instance, the Zacarias Moussoui debacle, where managers in the FBI would not allow FBI agents to get a search warrant for Moussoui's personal possessions, even though evidence presented was compelling. It is a long and tortured story, one that might have ended in FBI agents possibly stopping the attacks of 9/11 if managers at FBI Headquarters had not been guilty of "obstructionism, criminal negligence and careerism" (SA Harry Samit, FBI, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division 3/9/2006).
Senator Charles Grassley (R) and others have pointed out that no one in the FBI management team has been fired or punished for 9/11, and in fact, several have been promoted. Later, I will name not only those individuals involved in 9/11 who were negligent, but also name those in my case who were involved in that obstructionism, criminal negligence and careerism, and were subsequently promoted. One of the FBI managers in my case who was involved in misconduct, was also involved in the Moussoui investigation.
It is indeed a small world when one is a FBI Whistleblower.
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Hi Jane,
As I read the law, by 5 USC 1216(a)(4) and (a)(5), you can file a complaint of "other prohibited activity" with OSC, based on the outcome of your discrimination case and associated FBI violations of related civil service law, rule, or regulation. OSC has jurisdiction over FBI for laws under its jurisdiction by 5 USC 1216, in my opinion (i.e. FBI employees are subject to Hatch Act, FBI must comply with FOIA law, etc).
It is also my opinion that MSPB has jurisdiction over FBI to consider a case brought by OSC against an FBI employee for violations of law under its jurisdiction by 5 USC 1216.
Just a thought. But one reason you, as so many other FBI employees have been slapped around so long is because MSPB has failed to comply with its mandate and jurisdiction to conduct "special studies" at FBI (or anywhere else) necessary to report to Congress/President "as to whether the public interest in a civil service (at FBI and elsewhere) free of prohibited personnel practices is being adequately protected." See 5 USC 1204(a)(3) and (e)(3).
One phone call from Senator Grassley to MSPB would verify this claim. If he were to make an issue of it, it would be corrected - MSPB would do the study, expose the hostile working environment at FBI, and maybe, just maybe, some of the miscreants in your case face some accountability.
Joe Carson
Hi Jane, Have they managed to destroy your life like they did mine and my children's?
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