Precisely. No huge surprise. Your anger and frustration are completely understandable. (And, no doubt, whether or not you were a rising star, I would bet a month's pay that the "higher-ups" kept a very close eye on that "new, talented, but troublesome" employee.)SpeedoGuy said:Like I said, I was shocked and dismayed at what happened. I just couldn't believe my superiors were so craven as to alter the wording and intent of my report without even informing me. Further, to prevent my talking to the press about it, I was slapped with a pre-emptive gag order...
The scary part is, that's part of a bigger picture. Big money is spent running our various federal agencies with the original intent of protecting our government and our citizens. But with the administration having editorial control over those semi-annual reports, really, how can you trust the employment statistics from the Dept. of Labor, or the environmental health stats of the EPA, the worker protection/discrimination statistics from the Bureau of Personnel Management, or even the reports from the Dept of Homeland Security? It's pervasive, and it's insidious, and it's malignant. When the king's state of the union address and his policy-making machine are based on "edited" information, where does that put "we-the-people"?