As another foolhardy federal employee who put duty to the common good before professional standing and economic security, I became familiar with Mr. Dzakovic's story over a dozen years ago. In my case, I blew whistles, per my positive legal and professional duty, as a licensed professional engineer (PE) about serious public (including workplace) health and safety issues in the Department of Energy (DOE), custodian of America's nuclear stockpile and lead federal agency for security nuclear weapon material around the world.
My strongest reaction to 9/11, then as now, was relief - at least it was not nuclear, knowing firsthand as I do the corruption and dysfunction in DOE. As my personal post-9/11 mission, I determined to find out why DOE could slap me around with such impunity for my doing my duty to protect others. Now I know - and no longer much blame DOE for its reprisal against me. Who do I think is the real culprit? Tom Devine the long-time legal director at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is, in my opinion, the single largest obstacle to a trustworthy federal civil service, as he gets public plaudits for being a champion of foolhardy souls as me and Mr. Dzakovic, such as in quoted in the blurb for this book.
Why do I think this? Because he is complicit in decades-long, compounded, continuing law-breaking at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) and U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) that precludes a federal civil service that "embodies" the merit principles. I wish I had a nickel for every time someone in the media or Congress told me that if Tom Devine "blew whistles" about this law-breaking, things would change.
Tom Devine told me, over ten years ago: "As long as OSC does not actively harm federal employees who seek its protection from reprisal, it is 'good enough'." By that reasoning, Mr. Dzakovic should not have been concerned as Red Team Leader in FAA - as long as FAA did not actively help terrorists who tried to hijack planes to use as weapons of mass destruction, FAA was 'good enough'." Of course, a broken, law-breaking fraud of an OSC and a law-breaking MSPB that enables it, is a "gold mine" for Mr. Devine - it is the cause of the thousands of concerned federal employees he claims to have "helped" since 1978, when OSC was created. He is like a fireman who moonlights as a arsonist.
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Dzakovic's example underlines the point made it by Robert Coram in his biography of pioneer Air Force whistleblower Col. John Boyd, "Boyd, the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War."
Boyd, Coram reported in his well-written book, had a speech he often gave to those who, like the fighter pilot himself, found that doing right did not always mean doing well. Known as the "To Be or To Do" speech, Boyd used it to rally flagging spirits of apprentices who, until they became involved as one of his Acolytes, had appeared fated to climb the highest rungs of conventional success. The tenets of this speech reflected both his spirit and values:
"One day you will come to a fork in the road. And you're going to have to make a decision about what direction you want to go." [Boyd] raised his hand and pointed. "If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments."
Then Boyd raised the other hand and pointed another direction. "Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference." He paused and stared. "To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?"
A must read about national security whistleblowers and the real dangers they face
By Martin Edwin Andersen on July 26, 2016
The Bodgan Dzakovic story is the distillation of the challenges and threats faced by American national security whistleblowers to this very day. It proves that in an official Washington, the ownership of which is shared by both political parties, there is no statute of limitations on being ahead of your time or for putting your country's interests before your own.By Martin Edwin Andersen on July 26, 2016
Dzakovic's example underlines the point made it by Robert Coram in his biography of pioneer Air Force whistleblower Col. John Boyd, "Boyd, the Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War."
Boyd, Coram reported in his well-written book, had a speech he often gave to those who, like the fighter pilot himself, found that doing right did not always mean doing well. Known as the "To Be or To Do" speech, Boyd used it to rally flagging spirits of apprentices who, until they became involved as one of his Acolytes, had appeared fated to climb the highest rungs of conventional success. The tenets of this speech reflected both his spirit and values:
"One day you will come to a fork in the road. And you're going to have to make a decision about what direction you want to go." [Boyd] raised his hand and pointed. "If you go that way you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and you will get good assignments."
Then Boyd raised the other hand and pointed another direction. "Or you can go that way and you can do something — something for your country and for your Air Force and for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and you may not get the good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. You will be true to your friends and to yourself. And your work might make a difference." He paused and stared. "To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you will have to make a decision. To be or to do? Which way will you go?"
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