The FDA Spied On Its Own Scientists

Anyone working for any government department has the moral right to act in the interest of the public to the best of their ability. If you read TFA you'd know that:

"the F.D.A. program may have crossed legal lines by grabbing and analyzing confidential information that is specifically protected under the law, including attorney-client communications, whistle-blower complaints to Congress and workplace grievances filed with the government"

Other administration officials were so concerned to learn of the F.D.A. operation that the White House Office of Management and Budget sent a government wide memo last month emphasizing that while the internal monitoring of employee communications was allowed, it could not be used under the law to intimidate whistle-blowers. Any monitoring must be done in ways that "do not interfere with or chill employees' use of appropriate channels to disclose wrongdoing,"

Members of Congress from both parties were irate to learn that correspondence between the scientists and their own staff had been gathered and analyzed.

While you may have to do what the boss says, when you're a public servant and the White House as well as members of Congress from both parties come are on your side and your actions are specifically protected by law, you ARE doing what the boss says.

And to cap it off: A confidential government review in May by the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with the grievances of government workers, found that the scientists' medical claims were valid enough to warrant a full investigation into what it termed "a substantial and specific danger to public safety."

They were doing the right thing.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Er00k46kAjQ/the-fda-spied-on-its-own-scientists

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