Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Smart Justice We have noted that meritocratic values are increasingly dominant. Now comes Russell E. Yeazel, a judge in Dayton, Ohio, who has ruled that a...
...So was his last trip, a solo journey to the Khyber Pass...
...That’s it exactly...
...You said it, Armstrong...
...Thank you, sir...
...I never would have believed it, but the President’s system works like . . . like a dream...
...Record: A marvelous new term was introduced into the language by President Carter at a recent news conference...
...Ha ha, not in this administration, Armstrong...
...Am I fired, sir?“ “Fired...
...Now comes Russell E. Yeazel, a judge in Dayton, Ohio, who has ruled that a convicted thief with an IQ of 140 should not go to jail because “we don’t have the prison facilities to handle a genius...
...In reforming the civil service, Mr...
...But I sure am glad now that I blew my whistle legitimately...
...Armstrong, I’ve received your completed U. S. Government Whistle Blower’s Form, number GT-930-LB680, and I want you to know I am immensely impressed by it...
...I . . . I’m pleased, sir...
...Like a dream...
...I had been thinking of leaking stories of this agency’s horrifying ineptitude to the Times, or the Post, or Jack Anderson...
...A man dedicated to efficiency, service and, above all, the pursuit of truth...
...The trip was paid for by the U.S...
...What, then, is a“1egitimate” whistle blower...
...So were other trips Scott has made during his five years in the Senate to Australia, Columbia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Panama, the Philippines, Belgium, West Germany, Spain, Turkey, Romania, India, France, Greece, Italy, England, Japan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Austria...
...For his trouble, Snepp stands accused of breaking a CIA contract, and he is being investigated by the Justice Department, which will probably sue the man...
...Just Whistle The following is from a column by Richard Lipez in the Amherst (Mass...
...If Carter gets his way, throughout government we can one day expect scenes like this: “Ahhh, Armstrong, do come in...
...I am forwarding your completed Whistle Blower’s form to President Carter at half-past ten this morning along with my personal recommendation that I and all my klutzy and devious cronies be out on the street no later than noon...
...Best damn W.B...
...As an example of a presumably illegitimate whistle blower, the President offered up the case of Frank Snepp, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA in Vietnam...
...government...
...Good work, Armstrong...
...And, I must say, a little relieved...
...work I’ve seen in weeks...
...How enormously satisfying it is for me to have a man of your brilliance and integrity in my presence...
...Carter did not go into that, but it seems safe to infer that his kind of whistle blower is the one who blows his whistle through proper channels...
...Carter said, he wants to encourage “the legitimate whistle blower...
...Join the Senate and See the World Senator William W. L. Scott of Virginia recently flew to Lisbon, Portugal to attend a conference of the Interparliamentary Union...
...You have marshalled the facts superbly, Armstrong, and you have shown beyond any doubt that the performance of this agency, under my direction, has been consistently wasteful, shortsighted, deceitful and dumb...
...I just love it...
...How’s that...
...I worked very hard on it, sir...
...Snepp has published a grim book called Decent Interval showing how bad news about the war got suppressed in Saigon and good news was scraped together (or simply manufactured) and sent up to the generals and politicians, who kept hearing what they wanted to hear instead of the truth...
...Clearly, an “illegitimate” whistle blower...
Vol. 10 • May 1978 • No. 3
