The man in charge of protecting the civil rights of federal workers told a Senate Committee that he will not protect LGBT employees.
Special counsel Scott J. Bloch was testifying about complaints his office has adopted an extreme conservative position and has reprimanded people in his own office who disagree with him.
Bloch has been under fire for more than year for stonewalling complaints of discrimination by LGBT federal workers.
In February 2004 he ordered references to sexual orientation removed from the Office of the Special Counsel website. (story) Since 1998, when President Bill Clinton issued an executive order prohibiting bias in the civil service, the OSC has taken that to include sexuality.
A month after the references disappeared from the OSC website Bloch said gay workers were no longer protected. (story)
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