Amy Dahm has tried for nine years to get the government to take her complaints seriously.
Last year, President Joe Biden offered a senior job at the State Department to a man who Dahm says sexually harassed and retaliated against her when she resisted, damaging her diplomatic career as he advanced at State.
Since 2014, Dahm has provided testimony about the alleged incident to three different offices at the State Department, and to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which approves top State Department appointments. In July 2021, the State Department’s primary investigative bureau, the Office of Civil Rights, found Dahm’s claims to be “unsubstantiated and without merit,” and a source close to Dahm’s alleged harasser maintains that is true.
But that office at State still has not heard from at least two of Dahm’s witnesses, deeming them not “relevant” despite not having heard their testimony, HuffPost has learned. In November 2022, staff at the Senate committee said…
