The agency that’s supposed to protect whistleblowers across the government got slapped for retaliating against one of its own

The Washington Post: The little federal agency charged with protecting whistleblowers just got slapped for retaliating against its own, in-house whistleblower.

The Merit Systems Protection Board is a personnel court of last resort for federal employees who believe they were unjustly fired, demoted, discriminated against or punished for revealing corruption and other truths agencies don’t want to hear. It’s a guardian of the merit system, a white knight for thousands of people each year when judges rule in their favor and rule against the government, which they often do.

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