"The House version of the Federal Employee Protection of Disclosures Act includes a provision that would give the president authority to exempt any agency that primarily performs "foreign intelligence, counterintelligence activities or homeland security" from whistleblower protections. "
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The Bush administration is already doing everything it can to prevent insiders from stepping forward to recount its gross incompetence. Look at the shameful treatment of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, or the way the attack machine came down on former Treasury Scty O'Neill.