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The federal agency charged decades ago with policing excessive government secrecy has never taken a single action against a federal official.
Transparency advocates fear the Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) inability to carry out a prosecution points to problems in the underlying law and represents a lost opportunity by Congress to hold federal officials accountable for cover-ups.
“There is a risk that there is a lot of arbitrary and capricious withholding, and DOJ [the Department of Justice] is just not doing its job in making sure these individuals are held to account,” said Dan Epstein, executive director of the right-leaning Cause of Action.
“It appears that process isn’t happening, which provides incentives to employees to withhold documents.”
