Benghazi Committee Chair: Staffer Fired For Classified Info Breach

“And I know that I could give those victims’ families an explanation, a pretty thorough explanation, of why they were told that this attack was due to a video”. Watch Podliska’s exclusive TV interview with CNN Sunday at 9 a.m. ET on “State of the Union”.

“I knew that we needed to get to the truth to the victims’ families”.

The committee forcefully denied the allegations.

After anchor Scott Pelley dubbed the story “a new controversy tonight surrounding the House Benghazi Committee”, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes hyped that Bradley Podliska’s “claims are another blow to the House Benghazi investigation, but Republicans say he’s lying.” .

Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans – Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods – were killed in the 2012 attacks.

Napiltonia said the committee’s allegations of Podliska’s poor job performance are “completely false”.

“I’m scared. I’m nervous”.

Just after the attack on Benghazi, the Obama administration had explained that it was a spontaneous act in response to an anti-Muslim video that was circulating on the Internet.

The top Democrat on the panel, Elijah Cummings, said the “extremely serious” whistleblower charges show that “Republicans have been abusing millions of taxpayer dollars for the illegitimate objective of damaging Hillary Clinton’s bid for president”.

“I am going to vote for the Republican nominee in 2016”.

This has become a partisan investigation.

Hillary Clinton may still testify as planned on October 22 before this committee. Mr. McCarthy said on Fox News.

The latest major Benghazi Report, compiled by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and released in November 2014. “It’s time to shut down the Benghazi Select Committee”, Schiff said in a statement.

The committee’s charade first began to publicly unravel two weeks ago with the remarks of House majority leader Kevin McCarthy. Furthermore, the chair added, Podliska had not mentioned any complaint regarding Clinton while working for the committee.

The intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve is planning to file a wrongful-termination suit in federal court next month, as first reported by CNN and the New York Times.

“He was instructed not to pursue his PowerPoint presentation *not* because the Committee has no interest in his issues, but because he wanted to create a sensational and conclusory presentation that was not related to the Committee’s investigative plan and was premature given that factual investigation on these issues was developing then and is still ongoing”, the committee’s statement said. She recently called it “nothing but a partisan exercise”. But the words were there: The committee wasn’t about finding the truth behind the attack in Benghazi; it was about tanking Clinton ahead of the election. “We, however, do not need to shift resources to hyper-focus on Hillary Clinton. But at the end of the day I need to live with myself”, he said.

Gowdy says Podliska had actually been the one eager to scrutinize Clinton. Retaliation for an employee taking military leave would violate federal law protecting the rights of uniformed military personnel, the lawyers said.

By contrast, the Clinton campaign, which has been plagued by the still-unresolved Benghazi scandal and Clinton’s own infamous “what difference does it make” statement, was quick to seize on Podliska’s claims as potential “proof” that the Benghazi probe was, in fact, a partisan witch-hunt from the start. “Precisely one of them has been exclusively related to her email”. And I know this, because the nine months of research I had done is now lost. Those responsible for leading the select committee, duplicating the work completed by several other committees, said the panel was necessary to answer key questions about the deadly 2012 attack – but all of those questions have already been answered.

According to a draft of the suit, Podliska was told by the committee staff that he had been terminated for mishandling classified information, among other reasons.

What’s more, earlier this year, when Podliska was still on the committee’s staff, Gowdy boasted about the team’s work and qualifications. And long before joining the committee, Podliska was chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College Republicans during his time there and later interned at the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog. Ted Cruz for president. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.

Unfortunately for Clinton’s campaign, the FBI is also conducting an investigation.