[fintstone]

Tell them "none of your damn business." Never present yourself as a whiney suck-up in a job interview. It is just like women who flirt in an interview and then are shocked that the boss expects to sleep with them after they start work. Don't sabotage yourself for later. If they hire you based on the whiney, suck-up act....that is what they want from an employee and will expect from you....If you bend over in the interview....expect to carry a jar of vaseline in your briefcase.

Good advice about not badmouthing your current boss. Could be a brother-in-law or best friend. There is sort of a network...particularly in govt work...where it will get back to your boss. If you don't get the new job...you are really screwed. The prospective employer will also have a mental image of you saying the same things about him later.