I think that the anonymity of the complaint is to be expected in an atmosphere where people are losing their jobs over alleged disagreements or where they fear such will happen. Indeed, it would seem to be a product of basic human nature. There are so many examples where irregularities come to the surface through an anonymous, percolating process, at least at first, until the situation congeals and the ultimate challenge or perish decision would have to be made. Rightly, to me, staffers in DOJ want to protect their jobs yet save their department, and hope the anonymous course will prove fruitful through the journalistic and public interests it generates. On that account, I would note that suicide "bombers," ones who blow themselves up for a cause are not only unheard in America but would be antithetical to its most prized principles. That is not to say that some may not want to (have to) shed the cocoon of anonymity when the situation calls for it (when the situation develops to that point). The underlying issues, though not concerning the life and death of individuals, certainly are concerned with the life and death of principles, the integrity of our legal and political systems, and the quality of life, as putative irregularities could pollute and corrupt.
