WaPo: State Proposes Firing Whistleblower Peter Van Buren for Exercising 1st Amendment Rights

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January 2012 - Van Buren files a whistleblower reprisal complaint with the Office of Special Counsel.

Shortly after the OSC decides to investigate the case - but months after the Report of Investigation was completed - in March 2012, the State Department proposes firing Van Buren.

The proposed removal of Van Buren is transparently retaliatory and intended to send a chilling message to foreign service officers considering blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, and abuse at the State Department.

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My name is Jesselyn Radack and I am the former Justice Department ethics attorney and whistleblower in the case of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh. In today's issue of The National Law Journal (Feb. 19, 2007), I have an Op-Ed entitled (more...)