Federal employees are reportedly celebrating the forced resignation of U.S. Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch.

The FBI today raided the Office of Special Counsel, seizing documents and computers belonging to special counsel Scott Bloch and his staff.

At Oral Roberts University last week, two more regents resigned, a whistle-blowing professor was reinstated and a judge issued a rare gag order in a civil lawsuit.

That was just preamble for this week and what could be one of the most important regents meetings in the Tulsa school’s history.

Beginning tomorrow, regents will evaluate “strategic opportunities,” the university says in a release. Former president Richard Roberts, son of the university’s namesake, resigned last year following allegations of mismanagement.

The life of a whistleblower is hardly the glamorous stuff of Hollywood. Often it’s a life spent looking over one’s shoulder, hoping for small victories while withstanding reprisals.

What’s so unusual about the plight of Ken Pedeleose, an industrial engineer and whistleblower at the Defense Contract Management Agency, is that he scored a big victory last month from a federal mediation panel in a little-noticed ruling by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.