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9 Post author: Eneasz 26 September 2015 03:41PM

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Comment author: WhyAsk 28 September 2015 02:37:42PM *  3 points [-]

Thanks for the Hering link.

I, too, got into a dispute with the USAF but did considerably better and there was a lot less at stake. True to form for whistleblowers, a Lt. Col. who tried to help me on a related issue got sent to Taiwan. The punishment is worse for higher-ups because they should have known better by then.

Decades later, in my response to questioning how to sue a government agency for negligence, a lawyer told me "No one can sue the King." Questioning a King's sanity, or competence, may be worse than suing.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 September 2015 04:02:56PM 1 point [-]

a lawyer told me "No one can sue the King."

Yes, this is called sovereign immunity.

Comment author: shminux 28 September 2015 02:49:31PM 0 points [-]

As far as I know, you can sue a government agency, with some restrictions, but you can rarely sue the people who made the decisions in question while working for said agency. It's worse if the agency is a military branch and the normal civilian safeguards do not apply.