OSC-"Deliberately Creating The - IMPRESSION (only) - Of Ongoing WH Investigation"

[kpete]

Yesterday’s raid (by the FBI of Bloch’s home and office) “followed accusations that Mr. Bloch had destroyed evidence on government computers that might demonstrate wrongdoing.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/05/07/BL2008050701806_3.html

Here is a document fro POGO entitled “Summary of Task Force Activities and Recommendations” dated January 18, 2008. Extremely interesting, it details the various high profile cases of the OSC and the task force that was working on them. Sure paints schizophrenic picture of the office, Bloch and the task force. None of them look particularly good to me, but the task force, overall, probably comes off best. Take a look at it.

The POGO article with another link to that doc is here:
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/po......html#more

Clearly marked “DRAFT,” it is a memo dated January 18, 2008, to Special Counsel Scott Bloch from the members of a special task force. The task force was created, according to the memo, in May 2007, “to pursue certain complex and high profile investigations, such as the firing of the U.S. Attorneys and the political presentations given by the White House Office of Political Affairs (OPA).” The stated subject of the memo is “Summary of Task Force Activities and Recommendations,” but it reads at times like an anguished cry from investigators charged with an important mission but virtually every recommendation they make is countermanded by their boss. If they recommend going forward with an inquiry, Bloch says no. If they say they lack evidence or jurisdiction, he orders them to go forward.

The inescapable conclusion reached from poring through the contents of this 13-page memo is that Bloch was deliberately creating the impression of a huge ongoing multi-faceted investigation of the White House–at the same time that he himself was being investigated by another arm of the White House for various forms of misconduct.


http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2008/05/internal-draft.html#more