“President Trump’s political appointees inappropriately retaliated against a career civil servant at the State Department in part because of her ethnic background, her perceived political views, and the fact that she was in government during prior administrations, a federal watchdog says,” Politico reports.
“The report has been in the works for more than a year. It covers five cases, and overall its findings are mixed, in part because the inspector general says he was ‘unable to obtain essential information from key decision-makers.'”