{"id":18880,"date":"2013-05-21T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18880"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T19:36:16","slug":"using-scare-tactics-to-discourage-whistleblowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18880","title":{"rendered":"Using Scare Tactics To Discourage Whistleblowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will admit that I have only followed current events for the last twenty years or so, but I can&#8217;t remember ever hearing anything like the story I am about to report.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Journalism\/2013\/05\/20\/Armed-Police-Follow-Reporters-IRS-Employees-Scared-Off-From-Talking\">Breitbart.com<\/a> reported that two <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ABC News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ABC_News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">ABC News<\/a> reporters who entered the Peck Federal Building in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cincinnati\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.1,-84.5166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=39.1,-84.5166666667 (Cincinnati)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cincinnati<\/a> were escorted through the building by an armed uniformed police officer with the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Protective Service (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/fps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Federal Protective Service<\/a>. The Peck Building is a public building, it is also the home of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Internal Revenue Service<\/a> office in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The article at <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Andrew Breitbart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Breitbart<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>At the [Cincinnati] IRS office on the fourth floor, a woman who answered the buzzer referred reporters to officials in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Washington (state)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=47.5,-120.5&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=47.5,-120.5 (Washington%20%28state%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Washington<\/a>, though they were not returning very many calls. That staffer also said she was not allowed to speak to anyone \u2013 a line that was repeated by agency personnel during the week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>IRS headquarters in Washington denied that a no-talk rule was <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Policy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">official policy<\/a> because, after all, agency staffers still have a constitutional right to talk to whomever they want. \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Not so, said IRS folks in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ohio\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.1219998333,-80.6839998333&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=41.1219998333,-80.6839998333 (Ohio)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Ohio<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>One of them, who asked not be named, told ABC News that security guards did remind employees of the official policy not to talk with the press \u2013 a warning cemented by the punch line &#8220;or risk losing our jobs.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All we need is one honest, brave employee to come forward and explain exactly what happened. Unfortunately, that would be the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidency of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Obama Administration&#8217;s<\/a> worst nightmare and they will do everything they can to keep that from happening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=7d6bc2bf-6e41-4cdc-839c-38ad24e74cec\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will admit that I have only followed current events for the last twenty years or so, but I can&#8217;t remember ever hearing anything like the story I am about to report. Yesterday Breitbart.com reported that two ABC News reporters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1338,5531,5590,284,145,5591,2028,615],"class_list":["post-18880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abc-news","tag-cincinnati","tag-federal-protective-service","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-ohio","tag-policy","tag-presidency-of-barack-obama","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18882,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18880\/revisions\/18882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}