Scott Bloch, if you’ll recall, was among other things nominated for a Golden Duke for Outstanding Achievement in Corruption-based Chutzpah for taking his computer hard drive to Geeks on Call for a scrubbing to stymie investigators. Bloch is the head of the Office of Special Counsel, an administration office charged with protecting federal whistleblowers. But he actually spent most of his time either ignoring whistleblowers or retaliating against them. But he ended up ignoring most whistleblowers and actually ginning up a bogus investigation of the Bush White House in order to shield himself from investigations.
It perhaps sums up Bloch’s tenure best to say that he was such a bamboozler that he managed the almost unimaginable feat of making the Bush White House the legitimate victim of a bogus corruption investigation.
Now it turns out that the very-thin-skinned Bloch was in the habit of ordering subordinates in his office to visit the websites of news outlets that ran critical articles about him and writing anonymous comments attacking the articles and praising Bloch’s work. We’re going to do some poking around to see if Bloch’s underlings were praising the boss on the TPMMuckraker articles as well.
