FBI Raids Office of Special Counsel

From NPR:

FBI agents on Tuesday raided the offices of Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch, who oversees protection for federal whistleblowers. The agents seized computers and shut down email service as part of an obstruction of justice probe, NPR has exclusively learned.

FBI agents also searched Bloch’s home and a Special Counsel field office in Dallas. A grand jury in Washington issued subpoenas for several OSC employees, including Bloch, according to NPR sources who spoke on condition their names not be used.

A November Washington Post story detailed allegations that Bloch was using his office to retaliate, rather than protect, federal whistleblowers.

TPM Muckraker reports:

Bloch is not only busily investigating the White House for political briefings Karl Rove and his aides made to various agencies, but he’s also conducting an investigation of the politicization at the Department of Justice and issues related to the U.S. Attorney firings.