The U.S. Department of Labor has admitted it acted too hastily in forcing a young staffer, Leif Olson, to resign over a Bloomberg Law report by Ben Penn that falsely claimed to be Olson's anti-Semitic social media remarks. They weren't. Even Vox and Media Matters agreed the man had been railroaded by Penn. Conservative writers Philip Klein, Mollie Hemingway, Rod Dreher, Yair Rosenberg, Michael Brendan Dougherty, and Will Chamberlain blasted the mendacious report, too.  The happy-ending tweets from the blameless Olson came last night:   I’m grateful to be heading back to work. Thank you, Acting Secretary @PatPizzellaDOL and @WHD_DOL Administrator Cheryl Stanton for the opportunity to continue to serve. https://t.co/l7syrnVeyo — Leif Olson (@olsonleif) September 4, 2019     And to everyone who reached out, and especially to each of you who risked...(Read Full Post)