Earlier today, I noted the Office of Special Counsel’s sprawling investigation into Karl Rove and others in the administration, reported by The Los Angeles Times. But there was something missing from the LA Times piece — that Bloch himself is under investigation and something of an open joke among watchdog groups.
Justin over at The Blotter has the highlights:
…government watchdogs have accused Bloch himself of similar behavior. In April 2005, they and others complained the White House appointee had allowed his office to “sit on” a complaint that then-White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice used government funds to travel in support of President Bush’s re-election bid.
By contrast, they said, Bloch ordered an immediate on-site investigation of a complaint that Bush’s challenger for the White House, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., improperly campaigned in a government workplace, which had been filed around the same time.
Bloch is under investigation by the White House-run President’s Committee on Integrity and Efficiency for that and a host of other infractions, which means, as David Corn summarizes, “The investigator [is] investigating officials who oversee the agency that is investigating the investigator.”
That’s all a long way of saying that there are a number of questions about Bloch’s pledge to “not leave any stone unturned.”
