Former Benghazi Committee staffer says panel pursuing a ‘partisan

On Fox News Sunday, the congressman was asked what Clinton’s emails had to do with the committee’s mandate.

Podliska also described a few of the Benghazi committee member’s social activities like drinking wine and buying guns, as the panel has already cost taxpayers more than $4.5 million. He dropped his candidacy last week. Increasingly, Democrats expressed doubt about the committees work and the intentions of Gowdy.

The ranking Democrat on the Benghazi panel, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, said Podliska’s allegations provide more proof of serious bias by the committee’s majority.

The committee on Saturday forcefully denied the allegations. As stated by MSNBC, “The lawyers allege that Gowdy and the committee improperly released confidential information regarding an employment dispute with Podliska, in an effort to discredit him“. Napiltonia said his client was terminated after notifying the committee of his active-duty military obligations. He said the inquiry’s focus shifted to Clinton after the revelation in March that she used a private email server to conduct official business during her time as secretary of state.

“I’m scared. I’m nervous”. Although there were conflicting reports about the motives behind the attacks, the administration later labeled it a “terrorist attack”.

Claims that a Republican-led congressional body probing a deadly attack on an American mission in Benghazi targeted Hillary Clinton were dismissed Sunday as “salacious allegations” by the chairman of the panel. “It’s time to shut down the Benghazi Select Committee”.

The Benghazi Select Committee continues to unravel with more legal action.

McCarthy later said he had not meant to suggest the committee’s goal had been to harm the former secretary of state’s chance of winning the November 2016 election. Any time you see a passage like this, with competing interpretations of what’s going on behind the scenes, it’s a good bet that people are maneuvering to shape public perception to their advantage, and it can become a little hard to know for certain where the truth lies.

Clinton is set to appear before the committee October 22.

At one point, several Republican staff members formed a gun-buying club and discussed in the committee’s conference room the 9-millimeter Glock handguns they meant to buy and what type of monograms they would inscribe on them, Major Podliska said. She recently called it “nothing but a partisan exercise”.

And he insisted that the committee is focused on the right thing. Boehner gets a D. He was all about taking down Hillary Clinton from the get-go. Meanwhile, Podliska and other opponents accuse the committee of leading a partisan investigation. “She has acknowledged it. I do think that the way it’s been ginned up is in part because of politics”.

It added that Podliska “was terminated, in part, because he himself manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work” against the Obama administration, including Clinton, the statement said.

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A timeline of the events of the Benghazi attack, from CNN.

In rejecting Podliskas claims earlier, the committee said Podliska had received repeated counseling for performance and lack of judgment. “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.

Podliska serves in the Air Force Reserve.

Podliska said when he returned his superiors, including Kiko, largely ignored him and gave him little work to do.