OSC Deputy Counsel (and former GAP Director) Mark Cohen: "We'll look out for Robert MacLean, and make sure this wrong is righted."Fired and Disgraced Federal Air Marshal Robert MacLean, gave an interview to Mark Cohen, Director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), who represented Mr. MacLean in the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). MacLean subsequently lost his appeal with the MSPB. The MSPB claimed in their final ruling, that Mr. MacLean was not a legitimate whistleblower by law, and that his testimony was NOT CREDIBLE, meaning that he most likely committed perjury in his deposition and testimony. Some have claimed that Mark Cohen's actions of openly supporting his former client Robert MacLean, while in his new position as Deputy Special Counsel for the OSC, is unethical, a conflict of interest, and possibly a violation of law. In December of 2006, long before Mark Cohen left GAP to become the new Deputy Special Counsel, the Office of Special Counsel investigated claims made by MacLean, and decided to close the case file based on their findings that there was no evidence to substantiate MacLean's retaliation claims. Yet five years later, immediately after Mark Cohen assumed his new position, OSC reopened MacLean's closed file, and is now supporting MacLean by filing a Amicus Curiae brief to the MSPB, on MacLean's behalf, in an effort to get the MSPB to reverse its final decision based on a technicality, rather than on the actual facts and testimony that was presented in the case. The coincidence is staggering. So is Mark Cohen and the Office of Special Counsel going to now go back and reopen other whistleblower files that were prematurely closed by former Special Counsel Scott Bloch, or is the "new and improved" OSC only going to reopen the investigative files of those whistleblowers who are former clients of the Government Accountability Project? You may watch the complete interview at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idd972tZcSA
