fraud and abuse now i also read too that there was a report done by an investigation by our office of special counsel and you think about might have something to do with the timing here while the office of special counsel recently filed a complaint with them and they decided to refer for investigation and prosecution and it was only after that that the state department proposed the removal of mr van buren so that's roughly suspect and then as part of that proposal we found out that the state department's internal office of investigation has been investigating not the state department's first amendment violations against my client but rather mr van buren himself are you. do you have any regrets you know do you wish that you hadn't written this book had written this blog said what you did and then your job wouldn't be in jeopardy right now in the short term in the short term this is been a lot more difficult than i ever anticipated i did not expect the full force of the united states government all its electronic tools in its nastiness to come after me because i wrote a book i thought the american gove

a report by the office of special counsel, a federal agency created to protect whistle-blowers, detailedescalating campaign of retaliation against swicharowski. carolyn lerner heads the office. >> he was the target of a series of personnel actions all the way up to termination. >> reporter: after a gunman at fort hood killed 13 people in november, 2009, swicharowski volunteered to come in on his day off and help with the remains as they arrived at dover. >> i was confronted and told to go home. >> it was a public humiliation and it was clear they were trying to send a message to the other employees at the mortuary that this is what happens to people who come forward. >> reporter: then swicharowski was told he would no longer be working in the mortuary. basically you were taken out of your job. >> correct. >> reporter: and assigned to... >> a desk. >> reporter: how long did that last? >> a few months until i was placed on administrative leave. >> reporter: no reason was given, but until further notice he was not to come to work... a fact he was too ashamed to admit to his teenage children

special counsel appointed by mr. sullivan. federal prosecutors engage in a prosecutor misconduct. the report is accompanied by winky rebuttal submissions on behalf of those investigators. >> the prosecution took place before the office of president obama. the justice results have taken recent steps to train prosecutors. as a senior official dedicated to this purpose, the attorney general has conducted a thorough internal investigation with the stevens gave. >> i talked to the general about that. he hopes to make this report public. i have had the committee review this report. prosecutorial misconduct cannot be tolerated. i would not tolerate when i was a prosecutor. it should not be tolerated within our federal system. under any circumstances at all. what happens in the stevens case should not happen again. all defendants should be treated the same. significant evidence was not disclosed to the defense. critical mistakes were made throughout the trial without stevens the proper opportunity to defend himself. the sloppiness illustrates poor decisions. it also disturbed me and a lot of senators on both sides of the aisle. this is not a partisan issue. the justices need to assure that this never is repeated. day in and