Couldn't Have Happened to a Nicer Guy

Yesterday, with a full-scale raid, federal agents came down like a ton of bricks on Office of Special Counsel chief Scott J. Bloch. The Washington Post has this delightful detail:

Bloch used agency funds to buy for his office restroom $400 hand towels decorated with a special OSC seal, according to another person familiar with the raid.

That's not why he's going down; Bloch's being nailed for obstruction of justice. But man, I can just picture those fucking towels, and suspect he'll have no such fancy linens in the federal penitentiary where his betrayal of his duties ought to land him before long.

Comments

[tomk]

Bloch might be going down for all the wrong reasons, this situation is incredibly confusing. Homophobic creep though he may be, he actually could have been getting too close to the criminal masterminds currently running our government, he was tasked with investigating Karl Rove, among others. Firedoglake blog, specifically the emptywheel branch has insight and speculation, and I'm sure more will be forthcoming.

[Hermes Ten]

From the WSJ: "Bloch served as associate director and then as deputy director and counsel to the Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Justice."

Now, why am I not surprised that a guy promoting "faith based" initiatives lies, destroys evidence for which he is the trustee, and has $400 hand towels paid for by the taxpayers? Well, I guess it wasn't because the Ten Commandments aren't posted in public schools.