President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the whistleblower protection office comes from a legal group that is currently suing the Environmental Protection Agency for access to its employees’ encrypted communications.
The Office of Special Counsel is a small, independent agency that handles civil service and whistleblower cases. Trump’s pick to head OSC, Henry Kerner, served on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for five years before he became the assistant vice president for investigations for the Cause of Action Institute, a conservative oversight group of lawyers that is currently suing EPA. Trump’s choice was announced May 26.
