The article speaks for itself:
"ATF whistle-blower alleges backlash "
"by Dan Eggen, Washington Post | March 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - Edgar 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 this week. "In retrospect, I was naive to believe that the department would welcome my honesty."
Domenech filed a 13-page complaint Monday 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 Truscott, who resigned in August 2006 while under investigation for alleged financial mismanagement.
Domenech, who was second in command at ATF for four years, said his complaints about Truscott beginning in late 2005 were ignored or played down by aides to then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales because Truscott had ties to the White House. Truscott headed President Bush's Secret Service detail before taking over ATF.
Spokesmen for ATF and the Justice Department declined to comment on Domenech's allegations. The ATF spokesmen said they had not seen the complaint and could not discuss personnel issues.
An October 2006 report by the Justice Department's inspector general largely confirmed complaints by Domenech and other ATF senior executives. It determined that Truscott had engaged in a wide-ranging pattern of questionable expenditures on a new ATF headquarters, personal security, and other items.
The report also said that Truscott improperly forced employees to help his nephew prepare a high school video project and required female employees to serve lunch to guests."But, but, but... that's what life is supposed to be like under an emperor!!!!
