Official Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration

[madokie]

A government investigation found that Jim Renne was a key player in a scandal in which staff were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation.

It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based on suspected sexual orientation, according to an inspector general report.

Staffers were abruptly reassigned from Washington, D.C., to a new office 500 miles away in Detroit in what the head of the office reportedly described as an effort to “ship [them] out.” Staffers who refused were fired.

Crude anti-gay emails were found in the agency chief’s account.

Now one of the major players in the scandal has a new assignment: He works in the Trump administration.

https://www.propublica.org/article/official-in-bush-era-purge-of-gay-employees-now-in-trump-administration

[democratisphere]

1. The drumpf HATE ADMINISTRATION certainly knows how to insure

all groups to hate are covered. redumbliCONs are the scourge that will destroy our nation.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Of course he is!

It would have been a surprise otherwise!

[dembotoz]

3. shit like this happens and i am not surprised...would be shocked if he made a good hire

that would shock me