What If Diogenes Shined His Lantern On Washington?
By Thomas D. Segel
June 30, 2009
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Protect federal whistleblowers is the sixth and final proposal of the Government Reform Committee. Admittedly, the new administration is only about six months into a four-year term. Still nothing has taken place to resolve the issue of more than 1,000 whistleblowers that have been silenced by government order. Some of them have been held silent for years. Added to that is the legislation of the False Claims Act has a six-year statute of limitations and the time frame under that statute starts the minute a claim is filed. Thus, for many whistleblowers, time could expire before any of their charges are heard. The sad thing is, a Congress that deplores honesty in any form passed this legislation to keep honest comment silent.
So, we return to that man with a lantern, searching for honesty. The question in most scholars' minds is, "If Diogenes the Cynic believed there was no such person, why did he keep looking for an honest man?" In today's Washington that same question would be even more perplexing.
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