The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has announced release of its new report, Breaking the Sound Barrier: Experiences of Air Marshals Confirm Need for Reform at the OSC, recommending to the incoming Administration a major overhaul of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
Despite contacting almost a dozen current and former air marshals who blew the whistle, POGO could not identify one instance where the OSC upheld its responsibility to provide a secure whistleblower disclosure channel for the resolution of workplace improprieties, to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, and to hold accountable those responsible for whistleblower retaliation.
The POGO report describes in great detail what actually happens to federal air marshals when they do come forward to root out misconduct and criminal behavior they are retaliated against, and in most cases terminated, P. Jeffrey Black, a federal air marshal from the Las Vegas office.
