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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe price Gina Gray paid for whistleblowing on Arlington Cemetery wrong doing
Gray is the Defense Department whistleblower whose case I have been following for five years. She was the Army civilian worker who, before and after her employment, exposed much of the wrongdoing at Arlington National Cemetery misplaced graves, mishandled remains and financial mismanagement and she attempted to do it through the proper internal channels. Pentagon sources have confirmed to me her crucial role in bringing the scandal to light.
For her troubles, Gray was fired. The Pentagons inspector general recommended corrective action to compensate Gray.
According to documents just obtained by Grays lawyer, Mark Zaid, Army Secretary John McHugh rejected the inspector generals suggestion. McHugh wouldnt offer Gray anything because she was on probationary status at the time of her termination.
Gray, who worked in Iraq as an Army contractor and Army public affairs specialist, is now unemployed and living in North Carolina.
I went all the way up the channels, Gray told me on Tuesday. This is what happens when you do that.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-price-gina-gray-paid-for-whistleblowing/2013/08/20/9fe80c98-09cb-11e3-8974-f97ab3b3c677_story.html?hpid=z2
BTW my mother is buried at Arlington Cemetery
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Blow the whistle, even following protocol, and you are punished.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Perhaps I missed it, but even Shrub's admin didn't seem to go after whistleblowers as viciously as Obama's. W just didn't care.
On edit: stole this from another thread:
EOTE
(13,409 posts)The claims of transparency are laughable. At least the Bush administration didn't PRETEND to protect whistleblowers.
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idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)There will be very few Snowwald haters posting in this thread.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Bunch of keyboard commandos ignoring the realities of present day "justice" in the U.S. where the Patriot Act has suspended the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and drones, kill lists for U.S. citizens and torture of political prisoners are the order of the day.
dothemath
(345 posts)Exposing malfeasance and mismanagement by a powerful institution can be hazardous to your well-being. Move on, folks, nothing to see here.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)Snowden for leaving the country. Here's another example of why
he HAD to leave. We would never have heard more than a blip
about him if he hadn't. imho