Slothful AP State Dept Reporter Mike Lee Ignoring Mike Pompeo Being Sued For Anti-Muslim Discrimnation

AP State Department correspondent Matt Lee is blithely ignoring an employment discrimination lawsuit against Mike Pompeo and Trump's State Department because "nobody" has reported it.

And this isn't just ANY employment lawsuit.

This isn't some esoteric case  about somebody claiming she was denied a promotion because of her ethnicity.

No, this is a State Department employee alleging she was subjected to anti-Muslim harassment because she requested accommodations to observe Ramadan!!!!

Trump State Department Sued For Anti-Muslim Discrimination and Harassment

Why would anybody possibly be interested in that???? 

After all the lawsuit is not even credible.

Trump, of course,  has never been accused of anti-Muslim bias.

He has excellent relations with the Muslim communities in the United States and all across the world.

This whole thing must  be a "nut lawsuit."

Matt  Lee has clearly shown keen news judgment by ignoring such an obviously frivolous lawsuit.

Uh, not exactly.

Speculation is not journalism but it's a safe bet that this poseur is ignoring it because "nobody" has

reported it--except some enterprising guy who wrote it up for his Washington Gadfly blog.

And how is it that nobody else has noticed this lawsuit??

Apparently, because I'm the only reporter in Washington who bothers to check PACER (the Federal Courts database) to see

if anybody high profile in DC is being  sued.

Although you wouldn't know it from the way Michael Avenatti went on TV like 8000 times most lawyers don't seek publicity for their cases and are actually AVERSE to publicity.   All of the lawsuits I've exposed--against the Family Research Council for sexual harassment and retaliation and against the Washington Post for egregious race discrimination and harassment in the advertising department (including white VP Ethan Selzer cced above racially harassing black female subordinates)--I found on my own by going to PACER.  

Most lawyers are publicity averse.  Because they sue people to win cases. And you don't win cases in the press.

Mike Morganroth, the lawyer for WaPo ad man Dave DeJesus, made a calculated decision NOT to seek publicity

because he thought bad publicity would antagonize the Washington Post and they would be less likely to settle.

He could have easily got big publicity with his connections.  He was Jack Krivorkian's sp? lawyer. I think HBO made a movie about the case and he was featured in it.   He also represented Coleman Young, the first Negro mayor of Detroit, when the government went after him on some bogus charges.

Mike talked to me only after I called him.

But the lawyer for the Family Research Council absolutely refused to talk to me. He wouldn't even confirm my understanding of basic facts on background.  And he refused to even ask his client if she would talk to me.

Anyway, Wemple, my newfound kindred spirit, you mocked me last year for "sending me 300 emails about you and Tucker."

No, I sent you 3 emails and 297 articles.   Plus lots of emails about David Saperstein, etc. Emails implies I dashed something off the top of my head. I rarely do that. I usually write and re-write stuff in my head and sometimes on Google Docs. And I check facts and make calls sometime. "Is my understand about whatever correct."

And I always try to give you new information.  Because you are in many ways my reader and I was trained to give readers new and interesting and revealing information.  I don't think you realize how lazy DC reporters are because you're not lazy.

The lawyer who filed this case,  Morris Fischer, gives great quotes if anybody ever wants to talk to him about other employment lawsuits.   morris@mfischerlaw.com.   He represented an ICE whistleblower who was suspended, under pressure from Harry Reid's office, after she blew the whistle on an expedited visa program for foreign investors, one of whom was represented by Reid's son.

Per my exclusive report which sparked a congressional investigation and Inspector General investigation, after testifying before Congress she was then fired and illegally smeared by the ICE press office.

Anyway, maybe Matt Lee is not lazy? Maybe he has just been too swamped with more pressing stories to cover the lawsuit.

Here is one of the stories he recently wrote.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw came to Poland’s defense on Monday following repeated claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Poland bears blame for the outbreak of World War II.

Yup.

An esoteric dispute about the origins of World War 2 is clearly much more timely than anti-Muslim harassment lawsuit against Trump's State Department.

I do NOT read private emails from anybody I attack publicly. Any emails not cced to other reporters will be DELETED unread.

Evan Gahr

Washington Gadfly (so dubbed by Lloyd Grove)

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019

Mike Pompeo Sued for Anti-Muslim Bias

Is Trump now gonna tweet that the plaintiff is a LOSER who
should go back to her home country?

By EVAN GAHR

New York Post columnist for Eric Breindel

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being sued for religious 

discrimination by a Muslim State Department employee who 

claims her supervisors refused to let her telecommute so she 

could observe Ramadan, and she was then harassed

for making the request. 

In her federal lawsuit, Azza Zaki, who works in the 

State Department division that oversees the Au Pear program, 

claims that following her telecommuting requests she 

was “subjected to ridicule including but not limited to
harassing emails” and “being laughed at during meetings.”

The lawsuit, which as far as this reporter can tell has not been 
reported anywhere else, was quietly filed this June in the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit.

It charges illegal discrimination based on religion and
national origin.