Fired Benghazi investigator says House probe is partisan

“By selectively leaking” parts of Mills’ testimony, “Democrats have shown their nakedly political motivation, willingness to violate the letter and spirit of House rules and their desire to defend Secretary Clinton without regard for the integrity of the investigation”, spokesman Jamal Ware said.

Clinton, who served as the top U.S. diplomat for four years, is due to testify publicly before the committee for the first time on October 22. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, and has myriad television and radio credits as a commentator.

But that was before Boehner announced his retirement, and before his assumed successor-House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy-said too much about the actual objective of the committee. No. Was there something in those emails that finally proved the scope of Hillary Clinton’s villainy?

Podliska told CNN that after he returned to work and news had broken of Clinton’s private email server, the committee staff wanted him to focus nearly exclusively on investigating the former secretary of state.

Podliska was sacked after 10 months on the committee.

In recent days, the House panel has come under fire for what a few view as a partisan attack meant to derail Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid.

In an interview last week, Gowdy defended the committee’s work on Benghazi and said that only two of the people interviewed by the committee were related to Clinton’s email.

For months, the Benghazi Committee was the sharpest tool in the GOP’s fight against Hillary Clinton.

Only by ending this expensive and politicized investigation can we begin to undo the damage already done through this unprecedented use of Congresss power for nakedly political purposes. “But at the end of the day I need to live with myself”, Podliska told CNN.

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This video includes images from Getty Images. The statement said he had shown an eagerness to push claims against the Obama administration after joining the panel in the fall of 2014. If fired for this reason, it would be an unlawful firing.

“I was horrified by it. I knew that he was upset. I believe it shifted that way”.

GOWDY: He was a lousy employee and that was evidence by the fact that he mishandled classified information and won’t do what his supervisors instructed him to do. If she does, I hope she asks the committee chair Trey Gowdy if he will apologize to the families of the dead Americans.

And the self-labeled “conservative Republican” said he isn’t politically motivated.

Maj. Podliska denied coming forward because he supports Clinton: “I am going to vote for the Republican nominee in 2016”.

Multiple Democrats in Congress, who have been opposing serious investigations into the myriad Benghazi scandals from the start, also seized on the allegations. Ted Cruz for president. The Washington Post also has one of those. Podliska spent more than a decade as an intelligence analyst with a defense agency. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts. Mr. Cummings used the term to question the speed of the committee’s work. We taxpayers want our money back!

“On September 11, in his mediation filing, this staffer specifically claimed his reserve status as a basis for his termination, ” Gowdy said. Gowdy’s statement refers to one cause of Podliska’s termination as “deficient performance”.

Podliska, now stationed in Germany, could not be reached for comment. Romer-Friedman could not immediately identify the first lawyer.

He plans to file an unfair dismissal lawsuit in federal lawsuit next month. The mediation process is agreed to be scheduled to conclude Tues. His annual salary on the committee was $130,000, according to public records.

The chairman added that he has never met with Podliska. The committee has rejected all of those allegations.