Chris Van Hollen actually said...

I hope we will agree on a bipartisan basis that no agency should be basing its decision on politics.

Is it appropriate that this entity was doing searches on EPA employees to determine whether or not they were 'part of the resistance'?

You would agree, would you not, that it is important that EPA's decisions be based on the facts, be based on merit, be based on the law and ...

It worries me, as a window into politicization at the EPA, that is captured in this other article as well.