By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--July 11, 2014
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CSB staff told Congress that seasoned investigators who tried sticking to the facts of investigations—rather than the Moure-Eraso agenda—were bullied, humiliated in front of peers, and stripped of duties by senior CSB leadership. Since Mr. Moure-Eraso took over, at least nine senior employees (nearly one-quarter of the agency) have left. This has crippled CSB investigations and piled up their costs. CSB once tended to get reports out within six months of an accident; today the average is three to four years. It is still working on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill and has racked up $4.25 million in expenses on that investigation alone. The average CSB probe runs about $400,000. Mr. Moure-Eraso has shown equal contempt for fellow board members, cloistering himself with handpicked senior staff and defying board authority. When the board wanted more time to approve an annual budget, Mr. Moure-Eraso ordered staff to spend money anyway. When the board obtained advice from CSB General Counsel Chris Warner on how it might prohibit the chairman from making more senior personnel hires without the board's (required) approval, the chairman retaliated by demanding Mr. Warner's resignation. When Mr. Warner refused, Mr. Moure-Eraso hired his own general counsel (without board approval) and demoted Mr. Warner. An Obama board appointee, Dr. Beth Rosenberg, resigned in May—after only 17 months. She told Congress in June that those who disagreed with "senior leadership" were "marginalized and vilified," and that the "level of dysfunction" had made her continuance impossible.Does this crap even surprise anyone anymore? Obama's whole game is to grab and wield power however, wherever and whenever he can. His appointees understand that this is their charge, and whether it's the IRS or the NLRB or HHS, the objective is always the same. Seize as much power as you can, hide it from Congress and use it to Obama's political benefit. And if you can't see the political angle here, it's simply one more body exercising regulatory authority, which gives Obama a tool with which to bypass Congress and impose his will on the nation. You can bet your bottom dollar that this is happening in every department and every agency under Obama's control. The only question is which ones we'll find out about.
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