I saw today that an EPA employee has filed a whistleblower complaint against the agency fast tracking an application to mine lithium on federal lands pursuant to an earlier Trump Executive Order allowing such for rare minerals. The complaint is that there is a rare form of buckwheat growing in the area. Now do any of you really care about a rare form of buckwheat?

Now the real reason for this rant is that, contrary to the Ciaramella nonsense, his name is known, Dan Patterson. As I have repeatedly said, this is how federal whistleblower statutes work. Their is no right to anonymity. You claim that something happened to you because you blew the whistle and something happened to you. In this case he was placed on administrative leave because he refused to comply with the order.

Now the Office of Special Counsel will investigate and make a determination. That’s how it works. You don’t get to make false accusations and hide behind anonymity. Trust me. This is an area of my expertise.