I did nothing to justify termination. I was a loyal, exemplary employee with no discipline and many performance based awards prior to my complaints during the prosecution of the Scrushy/Siegelman matter. I do not know the basis for this attempted indictment. I filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act on June 30, 2009 to obtain the information. I have received nothing in response to my requests. The OIG's request for a criminal prosecution against me was declined by Mr. Hyde. On March 27, 2008, I was compelled to attend a Kalkines interview with Special Agent Gossard of OIG.
Please describe a Kalkines interview.
In the 1973 case Kalkines v. United States, the federal Court of Claims ruled that the federal government has the right to make its employees answer questions about their official duties so long as the government also grants the employee immunity from prosecution based upon that information.
What happened next to you?
I aggressively pursued information regarding my referral for criminal prosecution. I wrote many written requests over a three-month period previous to this, including a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights. Despite numerous requests for the information, my Kalkines interview was the first time I learned that the alleged basis for the selective attempted prosecution was, "Unauthorized disclosure of sensitive law enforcement information."
Of course, there was no unauthorized disclosure on my part. My disclosures had been made through established whistleblower channels that were "safe conduits intended for such reporting. Certainly, there could have been disclosures to strangers and persons sitting near Leura Canary and her group during the several hours spent in the lobby bar on Nov. 1, 2007. Unable to obtain evidence to support the selective prosecution, Special Agent Gossard was not to be deterred. On May 16, 2008, he and his supervisor, OIG Special Agent Eddie Davis, went back to prosecutor Melvin Hyde and his boss, Sharon Ratley, Chief of the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia's Criminal Division.
Why?
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