She will not win.

It took me 4.5 years to win a whistle-blower retaliation case and at that time, I had had the assistance of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (USOSC) and Senator Bob Dole's office and Bill Clinton was newly elected to office so there was a different climate of consciousness in the executive branch.

At that time, the USOSC had ~115 employees, only 17 or 18 of which were investigators - and - the Treasury agency which sought to damage me for making written objections to an award of a massive systems contract to AT&T - was already in the USOSC's sights for repeated abuses and had made a critical error in writing on which the special counsels office could establish new administrative law precedent. That small agency was charged with protecting X millions of public sector personnel in the civil and armed services, so do the math on the likelihood of getting USOSC air support.

1. The USOSC was normally functioning at that time. It likely no longer is normally functioning with leadership appointed by G-Dub

2. USOSC only listens to your complaint if somebody important asks on your behalf {Dole},

3. USOSC prioritizes based on the likelihood of accomplishing their own administrative law objectives a tiny agency has to leverage its use of time and resources unless there are a lot of other similar complaints in the queue, Greenhouse's case is not likely to be considered.

4. AT&T had no special consideration from above such as we can presume Halliburton has under these circumstances.

I began building a carefully documented case against the perpetrating agency two years before filing a complaint with the USOSC, I filed my complaint months before the agency took formal action against me, and I developed a rapport with a USOSC attorney with whom I regularly communicated {including documentation} long before the axe fell. I knew exactly what, how, and damn near when the other shoe was going to fall.

The USOSC sprung its trap the very same day I was retaliated against in writing.

I say all of this to point out that an attorney in private practice is not likely going to be able to traverse the manipulations of the Privacy Act and information classification and secrecy that the Army will undertake to stonewall and thwart legal discovery in this case. Greenhouse will need to obtain e-mail correspondence and other supporting evidentiary materials that will be classified and thus subject to a separate and still less penetrable cloud of obfuscatory manipulation. The burden of proof is on her and unless she's obtained a powerful and self-motivated ally seeking to accomplish its own objectives, the outcome of this is a foregone conclusion.

This general is laughing in his sleeve because he knows he has the ability to $$bleed$$ Greenhouse to death before she makes a dent in his machinations, and, going public will not change the administrative and legal realities of her situation in any way whatsoever.

To your point P6, they are making an example of her.

To your point P6, they are making an example of her.

I'm sure. There's been a number of similar stories recently and the pattern just gelled for me. 

I knew this is where things were going. This does not surprise me in the least. With a "termination for cause", the government just became the beneficiary of a number of presumptions in its favor when it came to firing Ms. Greenhouse. If she's going to prevail at all, it will be in the political realm, because her chances in the legal realm, even as a dual member of protected classes, is close to zero.

I'd lay odds at a million-to-one for her chances in the political realm. The politics of patronage are too heavily stacked in favor of vested interests that'd prefer to go along to get along rather than step up to an heroic guardian role and make a concerted effort to get a sister's back.

As a black man, powerless to do anything more than knowingly prognosticate from a distance, I shamefully predict that she's on her own and thus screwed...,

It really, really hurts to see a black woman step up against the machine like this in what is unquestionably an heroic fashion - and get served. She's putting damn near as much on the line as Cindy Sheehan, but the overwhelming majority of people have no idea just how nasty and encompassing the situation engulfing her truly is.