David,
You should resign from that awful place. File
a grievance with the Society of Professional
Archaeologists with a copy of your detailed
complaint with documentation to the President
of the SAA. Ah, but your hypothetical PI is
not certified by SOPA. But wait, he probably
is a member of SAA.... which will eat SOPA in
just a few months ..... then your PI will have
to respond to SAA+SOP=ROPA.
You have an ethical responsibility to your
profession, America, and yourself to bring
the actual facts forward. If federal $ is
being mis-used or archaeology is being
destroyed, then you should file a complaint
with the U.S. Attorney General's Office under
36 CFR 800. Under what ever laws, you should
file complaints to the District Attorney and
the state equivalent when there is a crimimal
problem.
Ron May