U.S. Office of Special Counsel

U.S. Office of Special Counsel may refer to:

  • United States Office of Special Counsel, an independent U.S. government agency that protects Civil Service employees from unfair personnel practices.
  • U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel, charged with investigating alleged misconduct in the Executive Branch.
  • White House Counsel, a staff appointee of the President of the United States.

Famous quotes containing the words office, special and/or counsel:

    No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.
    Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    How the devil am I to prove to my counsel that I don’t know my murderous impulses through C.G. Jung, jealousy through Marcel Proust, Spain through Hemingway ... It’s true, you need never have read these authorities, you can absorb them through your friends, who also live all their experiences second-hand. What an age!
    Max Frisch (1911–1991)