Challenges for Office of Special Counsel

In a Government Executive article, former Special Counsel Elaine Kaplan outlines some of the challenges facing the Office of Special Counsel in the wake of the recent departure of Scott Bloch:

"We think that the next administration really should pay a lot of attention to the agency because it has the potential to do a lot of really good and important stuff," said Elaine Kaplan, who ran OSC from 1998 to 2003 and now serves as senior deputy general counsel of the National Treasury Employees Union. "And in spite of the fact that there have been a lot of problems there during the past five years and that there has been a lot of turmoil, I still think it's entirely possible that this place can be turned around."

That job won't be easy though, she said, noting that Bloch's successor "will have a lot of rebuilding to do."