Trump Admin Braces for New Whistleblower Controversy
by Colin Kalmbacher | 4:11 pm, February 10th, 2020
A newly-reported whistleblower complaint could spell a new round of trouble for the Trump administrationthis time on the subject of environmental protection.
On October 4, 2019, a five-year veteran employee with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) filed a sweeping whistleblower complaint which was subsequently obtained by Politico and Type Investigations. The allegations contained in that complaint are shocking and, if true, reveal a newfound culture of lawlessness and exploitation of public lands in service of hardly-masked profit and greed.
The outlets joint reporting notes:
[T]he Battle Mountain [BLM] office [in Nevada] has repeatedly disregarded its own environmental rules and regulations to fast-track permits on public land. The historic antipathy toward federal oversight common to this region,combined with a presidential administration that has announced its hostility to decades of environmental law, has left public lands especially vulnerable.
This time the whistleblower has come forward publicly. His name is Dan Patterson and hes one of the limited environmental protection specialists who works in the Western region. His complaint details a BLM rife with abusive and profit-oriented practices which, he claims, also happen to run afoul of internal agency rules and federal law.
More:
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-admin-braces-for-new-whistleblower-controversy/
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)for the environment. I wonder how many more whistle blower complaints are going to come out. Im hoping for a something akin to Niagara Falls.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Link to tweet
ALSO, another whistleblower has drawn attention to 100% BOGUS funding of anti-trafficking organizations:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2431573
Thank you, Judi!!
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)burrowowl
(17,645 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)until they are removed from office. The insatiable greed
of this administration is unconscionable.
Squidly
(783 posts)If someone found gold inside Mt Rushmore, tRump would grant a permit to blow it up as long as he or his cronies would profit from it.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)chiseled into the stone outcrop remains.
Squidly
(783 posts)He would just have the Crazy Horse monument redone to have his face and fake fit body riding the horse like Putin has done in some of his paintings....
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Squidly
(783 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)woodsprite
(11,924 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)As per usual, Im more informed because of your news posts.
magicarpet
(14,167 posts).... his colorful past.
He threatens them, then shames them, then lodges suit against them, and then he totally destroys them.
If any whistle blowers come forward with wrong doing before the 2020 national election it will be miracle.
Look at all the people trDump has trashed and smeared with mud - this guy is a sick vindictive asshole.
HR Clinton
Former attorney Cohen
Comey
McCabe
Yates
Strzok
Page
Brennan
Sessions
Yovanovitch
Sondland
Vindman
Many many more....
erronis
(15,328 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)has more integrity, higher ethics, decency, intelligence and honesty than the entire gop COMBINED. Roger Stone is the weasel faced representative of the gop now. He should have been in prison long ago. I wonder why Mueller and more of the team that investigated the Russian involvement have not come forward, supporting their colleagues?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)violate our mining claim and say it is invalid. Our claim fees have been paid in full for the last six years,and our next claim renewal in in June. Understand that the new fee might be five or more times as much. The Feds have been wanted we small Claim (private)Claim holders out and by raising our fees to some ridiculous amount that the Hobby prospectors would just say to hell with it and some mega mining company would just pick up a group of parcels at a fire sale price.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)He treats the environment like it is his enemy.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Anything we value is subject to destruction.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Someone has been holding that back, wonder who that might be?
Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
cilla4progress This message was self-deleted by its author.
mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)My suck up Senator Gardner has been trying to move the BLM headquarters to Colorado. I can see him being involved in this. Well vote him out in November.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)You couldn't possibly think that Barr would shut down any FBI investigation into these allegations, could you?
You couldn't possibly think that a Federal agency would work against the Citizenry, could you?
Nah, it is all the Democrats fault, right?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)revmclaren
(2,529 posts)ONLY!!! 2020 and beyond
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Supposedly, there was some interference or finagling being suggested or being done.
Sec. Mnuchin? He seems to have had something to do with blocking it. Is he connected to the IRS, too?