Dear June,
I have a difficult decision to make nearly every day at my federal agency job: What agency employees are doing is at times outside the bounds of ethics and law. Do I say what is true and give up the possibility of being promoted and accept the probability of being excluded from future policy workgroups? Or, do I stay quiet when possible and lie when I must in order to stay in the power mix for the continued opportunities to be in the room where government chooses whether and how to regulate industry and thereby, be able to make minor differences here and there?