The Wall Street Journal’s headline this morning “Special Counsel Has Hands Full With FAA” sets off alarm bells that reporter Christopher Conkey fails to quiet.

Conkey plays it straight, explaining the independent Office of Special Counsel’s ambitious investigation into 32 different whistleblower complaints filed by Federal Aviation Administration employees.

What he doesn’t do, however, is point out that the Office of Special Counsel itself is under investigation. In fact, the government watchdog is partly being investigated for saying it’s conducting sweeping probes on matters like Justice Dept. selective prosecutions, when, really, it’s doing nothing at all.

Who’s to say whether this is the case with the FAA inquiry. We can say that this is a decidedly more pro-Special Counsel story than the one two months ago about the FBI raiding their office. -MB

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