Court Limits Public Workers' Speech
Rules That First Amendment Does Not Protect Every Whistleblower

WASHINGTON, May 30, 2006
 
(AP) The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for government employees 
to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against for going public with 
allegations of official misconduct.

By a 5-4 vote, justices said the nation's 20 million public employees do not have 
carte blanche free speech rights to disclose government's inner-workings. 
New Justice Samuel Alito cast the tie-breaking vote. 

Or, what could be worse, if Government Employees have limited speech, how long before the Supreme Court declares that - lo and behold! - we're all Government Employees and subject to the same restrictions?

But what's most disgusting about this is simply that it's a curb against whistleblowers, which can only add to the current layers of secrecy and corruption plaguing the Bush Administration. Disgusting but sadly not surprising.