An ATF Communications Specialist had worked for ATF for six years, managed communications in several field divisions and was a key player in the communications support for the DC Sniper investigation. Despite having multiple graduate level degrees and many fully successful performance evaluations, after challenging an ATF supervisor, ATF made a retroactive determination that this person was incompetent and proceeded to create such a hostile work environment that the employee resigned his position and left government service. Throughout ATFs attempt to retroactively discredit the Specialist, he was assaulted by a coworker on duty. The assault was report and went virtually unaddressed. Litigation is currently pending and an EEOC complaint has been filed related to a hostile work environment and race discrimination.
