¢ Scott Bloch, the former Lawrence attorney now in charge of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, is profiled in today’s Washington Post. Bloch last week said his office would investigate Karl Rove and other officials used federal time and resources for political reasons, as in the case of the fired U.S. attorneys._Bloch has spent most of his tenure under investigation himself due to allegations of illegal personnel practices — and he would be investigating the executive branch at the same time that it is investigating him. What’s more, as a Bush appointee who once wrote that he “sold all my mutual funds when Clinton was elected,” Bloch is not quite apolitical.__”There’s no conflict of interest and no law to support a theory that I have a conflict of interest,” he said in an interview. “It would be inappropriate for the White House to interfere with my independence, or suggest I cannot undertake investigations that pertain to matters inside the White House. . . . I have had those throughout my tenure.”_