Official involved in Bush-era purge of gay employees now in Trump admin

Jim Renne was a key player in a scandal in which staff were targeted on basis of sexual orientation

It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based on suspected sexual orientation, according to an inspector general report.

Staffers were abruptly reassigned from Washington, D.C., to a new office 500 miles away in Detroit in what the head of the office reportedly described as an effort to "ship [them] out." Staffers who refused were fired.

Crude anti-gay emails were found in the agency chief's account.

Now one of the major players in the scandal has a new assignment: