March 21, 2006

Representative Tom Davis (R-VA)

Government Reform Committee

2157 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

Dear Congressman Davis:

I am a former government employee, having graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1970 after which I served two deployments in the Western Pacific, as a Naval Officer, during the Viet Nam Conflict. After my 5 year commitment ended, I received an honorable discharge and then served as a special agent of the FBI for 21 years, beginning in April 1976 and was involuntarily separated in November 1997. Early on in my FBI career and throughout the next two decades, I experienced a culture in which it was more important to maintain a certain public image (which I did my utmost to counteract) rather than to accomplish the mission at hand, which eventually, (as a poignant example of the inherent danger of such a culture) would lead to the worst attack on American soil in our country’s history (911).

As a Congressional representative of the people, you took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the US, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Your consistent attempts to deny viable whistleblower protections to government employees (in your role as chairman of “government reform”), have inexplicably thwarted not only necessary legislation but simultaneously weakened those who would attempt to reform corrupt and abusive government agencies. By your actions, you have unwittingly placed our country and its citizens in even greater danger, as starkly evidenced in the ongoing trial of the only person ever to be indicted for the “911” attacks. Recent front page stories indicate that FBI management was repeatedly warned that the subject of this case was a danger to our country but the warnings went unheeded, even to this day. It is my belief, that in condoning any government agency which can retaliate against its employees for exposing waste, fraud, abuse and corruption; that you have violated your oath of office, and have given in to political expediency and partisanship.

With all due respect, I only ask that when you do anything on behalf of this great country, that you do so under the aegis of your conscience, not your political beliefs.

Sincerely,

Robert A. Woo

Member, NSWBC