WHITEWASH AT THE BORDER (only lower downs held accountable)

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This is really a problem in this administration!!
clickable longer stories at website.



http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=730617

> – WHITEWASH AT THE BORDER: A new report released by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel yesterday found Border Patrol agents in Arizona for years took kickbacks from area landlords, but top officials in the U.S. Border Patrol refused to intervene and the Department of Homeland Security avoided holding any high-level officials responsible. Forty-five low-level employees were eventually punished for the fraud but, as the OSC report states, "it stretches credulity that 45 employees at a single Border Patrol station engaged in a kickback and fraud scheme for a number of years … without the knowledge of management." And while the Department of Homeland Security first promised to punish top Border Patrol agents, a short time later, the department announced it would not because "disciplinary action would be 'an administrative burden.'" As Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch charges, by avoiding punishment of higher-ups, "there is a real risk of creating the appearance of a whitewash."