Jeff Ruch likes to quote the father of the nuclear Navy, Hyman Rickover – “If you must sin, sin against God and not the bureaucracy. God may forgive your sins. But the bureaucracy never will.”

Ruch was present at the creation of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

He started out as PEER’s general counsel and then from 1997 to 2019 was its director in Washington, D.C. Ruch now is PEER’s Pacific director, responsible for Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

Ruch deals with whistleblowers in the government bureaucracy. But he sees little difference between how corporations and the government treat whistleblowers.

A typical left right argument would be the left saying corporations are the problem and the right saying government is the problem.

PEER is saying – they both are the problem.

“And we are also saying there is no big difference between Democrats and Republicans – there’s just the Green Party,” Ruch told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last week. “It’s Mr. Green’s party. Not the Green Party we all know. It’s money. We’ve seen Democratic politicians put their thumbs on the scale just as much as we have seen Republican politicians do it. But the Democrats have green cover.”

Shed some light on a good government story – an ethical public employee at the top?

“At the top? Generally the ones at the top who exhibit ethics get replaced,” Ruch says.

“Take the case of Jim Baca, who was Clinton’s first head of the Bureau of Land...

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