Fri, Jun 17, 2011
Told That Older Cases Would Be Assigned A Lower Priority
In a meeting with the FAA's Office of Audit and Evaluation, the
FAA Whistleblowers Alliance (FWA) was told recently that the agency
was placing a higher priority on cases involving current employees,
and those who had left the agency would be pushed to the back
burner.
The Washington Examiner reports that FWA Executive
Director Gabe Bruno was told at the meeting that older cases would
get a lesser priority. He had uncovered a certification scheme in
which 33 people who had been certified as mechanics shared the same
address in Saudi Arabia. But FAA Office of Audit and Evaluation
head Clayton Foushee Jr. told Bruno that while some managers are
still abusing their authority, there was basically nothing he could
do for people who had already left the agency.
But Government Accountability Project (GAP) Director Tom Devine
told the paper that putting those older cases on the back burner is
a mistake, and that the agency damages its own credibility by
letting them go. Devine said that by letting those cases go, it
discourages would-be whistleblowers from coming forward for fear
they will be the ones ousted with no recourse.
There was one bright spot. The FAA's former top safety inspector
who had reported that Alaska Airlines was falsifying records a year
before a stabilizer on one of their planes failed causing it to go
down in the Pacific Ocean ... and who exposed the use of vodka as a
de-icer in Siberia, was awarded a large settlement after 12 years
of litigation.
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