Familiar Problems at CDC

Exodus, morale shake CDC | ajc.com:

In this long, but illuminating, article about problems at one of America's most important government agencies, one concern stuck-out like a corpse in a chorus line:

". . .The lack of trust in CDC's top leadership is publicly reflected in dozens of postings on an independent CDC employee blog that began publishing on the Internet in January, as well as in a governmentwide poll of federal employees. Between 2002 and 2004, CDC employees who said the agency's leaders maintained high standards of honesty and integrity dropped from 51 percent to 45 percent.

'There is a disconnect between what is said is happening and what we see or feel is happening,' said Bob Keegan, creator of the blog www.cdcchatter.net, which he said gets about 30,000 hits a day. Keegan, deputy director of the CDC's Global Immunization Division, is a recipient of the agency's Watson Medal of Excellence, a top employee award. . ."

Does any of this sound vaguely familiar?