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When the corrupt head of a federal agency wants to remove computer evidence of his misdeeds, who does he call?


Yeah, that's right. The criminal masterminds in the blue collared shirts. Are these the ones that drive special little PT Cruisers, or is that the Geek Squad? I can't remember.

Anyway, the agency in question here is the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which is supposed to protect federal government employee whistleblowers from reprisal and enforce certain restrictions on political activity by government employees.

Current OSC head Scott Bloch, however, has apparently been running the place in true Bush-appointee style, inappropriately allowing politics to interfere with the agency's mission. After years of government investigation, that's earned his shop a big FBI raid and numerous grand-jury subpoenas (WP).

I think we've all heard this story before in various forms, but I was just a little tickled to learn that Bloch called in the Geeks to scrub some of his hard drives during a previous investigation. You'd think there'd be a record of that job somewhere, wouldn't you? Genius.