Wow!!!
Just...wow... I thought the whole veterans bad thing was bad...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, the State Department circulated an “optional” pledge, in which signatories agreed to refrain from attending church.
State Department security officer Mark Pemberton refused to sign the “optional” pledge. As a result, his own agency referred him to the Justice Department for investigation on the grounds that he was involved in “Religiously Motivated Violent Extremism,” or RMVE, according to a lawsuit he filed earlier this month against the State Department.
Pemberton said in his lawsuit that he first told his superior, Diplomatic Security Mobile Security Deployments Office Director Jeff Thomas, he was refusing to sign the voluntary pledge because he couldn’t wave his constitutional rights. Nor could he stop exercising his religious beliefs, he said. Thomas later retaliated by referring him to the department’s insider threat program.
Full article, HERE from Headline USA, and a video HERE. h/t S.
Soooo, basically they went after him because he is a WASP and heterosexual. Therefore he ‘must’ be a threat to the Xiden administration/State Department... sigh.
What is unbelievable is that this has drug on for FIVE years! At least now he’s fighting back and from the reports seems to have a good case! Of course I’m NOT a lawyer, and we all know ‘where’ the case is filed and ‘who’ the judge is will play a major role!
I just hope he wins!
Grrrr...


And here I thought that the State Department was only Screwtape levels of evil, and here they are consorting with Cuthulu.
Morbark for cleanup on aisle four.
John in Indy
Judicial gag orders and other legal malfeasance ensures that cases drag on like this.