I mostly stopped following this stuff because it is so aggravating and seemingly pointless. One of the things I take exception to from the article:
What’s also disturbing is that, according to that same report: “Between the election and April 2017, when Ferrante finally left the White House, the Trump NSC division supervisor was not allowed to get rid of Ferrante.” In other words, Comey tried to ensure that the White House had no authority to remove Ferrante. Somehow the director of the FBI superseded the authority of the President of the United States, implanting an unremovable agent.
This is plain, old-fashioned bullsh*t. There were (are) rules that protect employees from workplace retaliation but there isn't one of them that could stop the White House if they were truly committed to removing him.
For that matter, they could have simply stripped him of all but basic access and given him a new office - somewhere in the bowels of the building. A nice windowless cubicle a quarter-mile from his nearest co-worker. No work assignment other than "answer the phone if it rings" (and then provide him a dead line).
I'm tired of people saying that workers have all the rights and employers have none - especially when I was maneuvered out of my job in precisely that manner.