Are U.s. Government Officials Found to Have Commited Unethical Conduct be Held Accountable Under the Next Presidential Administration?
A group of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) complained about mismanagement within the FDA administration claiming that the FDA's top officials involved in the mismanegement instead of being held accountable, have been promoted. Is the FDA a prototype of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
For a CNN news report dealing with the FDA' story, please cick at:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/09/fda.scientists/
What is interesting with the FDA's report of mismanagement by nine FDA employees who wrote to President-elect Barack Obama to do something once he takes office.
Instead, the Wall Street Journal reports that the FDA's Acting Chief will stay during the presidential transition. To see the Wall Street news report, please click at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123162224372371221.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
As we know, our U.S. government is almost broke due to the mismanaging of taxpayers monies and thanks to our U.S. top administrators who have spent billions of dollars in projects that never worked.
Take for example the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)and all of its agencies, especially the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
ICE has been spending millions of taxpayers dollars in anti-immigration employment raids. The focus of the ICE's administration was "illegal immigration" when this agency is also responsible for investigating the smuggling of drugs, money laundering, illegal importation and exportation of weapons of mass destruction and a number of their significant U.S. Customs relatedcriminal laws.
Sources who asked to remain anonymous reported that when an ICE agent presented a good potential drug smulling conspiracy case, his/her immediate ICE supervisor ordered the agent not to open such a case because the emphasis was illegal immigration.
Now recently, another source who wants to remain anonymous reported that an ICE undercover drug smuggling investigation was being conductedsomewhere in Texas. During the undercover investigation, ICE agents learned that some family members of U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-El Paso, TX) were involved. This information has not been confirmed and as such this author considers this "lead" is just a rumor. However, whether the allegation proven to be correct or false, I believe a federal agency, such as the FBI should take a closer look at this allegation.
The ICE agency is well known to retaliate against any employee who talks to the media or contact any other U.S. government agency. The ICE and its Legacy U.S. Customs Service have a long history of protecting its managers, supervisors and top level officials while administering what I call the "capital punishment" (termination) to any low-level ICE special agent who becomes a whistleblower or files an EEO complaint against management.
My hope is that under the new administration under President Barack Obama and DHS' Secretary-desginee Janet Napolitano, things will change for the better and DHS and ICE and all other agencies under DHS will work freely withoutbeing afraid of reporting misconduct and morale will be boosted to a higher plane
