GOP Whistleblower Was Fired For Refusing to Target Clinton Benghazi Investigation

[Attorney in Texas]

Source: Politicususa.com

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, issued the following statement in response to a New York Times report that a Republican investigator was fired in part because he would not go along with Republican plans to target Secretary Clinton:

These are extremely serious whistleblower charges by one of Chairman Gowdy’s own handpicked investigators who reports that he was fired in part for not going along with the Republican leadership’s plan to use the Select Committee to target Hillary Clinton, and they show, from the inside, that Kevin McCarthy’s stark admission was true: Republicans have been abusing millions of taxpayer dollars for the illegitimate purpose of damaging Hillary Clinton’s bid for president.

The investigator in question, Bradley F. Podliska, is a major in the Air Force Reserve, and he ... began working for the Benghazi committee in September 2014. He is no slouch. The Times details that he is “a lifelong Republican, holds a doctorate in political science from Texas A&M University.” According to the committee, he was “terminated for cause…in part, because he himself manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work.”

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/10/gop-whistleblower-fired-refusing-target-clinton-benghazi-investigation.html

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Here is a link to the DU Latest Breaking News post on the NYT article that Rep. Elijah E. Cummings was responding to. Here is an excerpt from the NYT article:

WASHINGTON — The Republican leaders of a House committee who have been in a bitter partisan battle with Democrats are enmeshed in a new fight with one of the committee’s former staff members.

A former investigator for the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi plans to file a complaint in federal court next month alleging that he was fired unlawfully in part because his superiors opposed his efforts to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in the Libyan city. Instead, they focused primarily on the role of the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said.
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The House committee is under increasing criticism for what critics say is the partisan nature of its investigation. In late September, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority leader, rekindled these suspicions when he suggested that damaging Mrs. Clinton’s presidential prospects was a welcome byproduct of the committee’s investigation.

“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” Mr. McCarthy said on Fox News. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.

[Attorney in Texas]

1. Note: this is a breaking news story mainly about Rep. Elijah E. Cummings' statement in response to

the NYT story. The title of this thread is similar to the LBN post about the NYT story, but this story is focused on the extremely newsworthy response of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings.

[roscoeroscoe]

2. Let some light in

I want to hear from this guy in open session

[Kingofalldems]

3. Special Prosecutor needed to investigate the Benghazi!! Committee.

Actually just the republicans on the committee.

[WIProgressive88]

18. Yes, please! This whole thing's been a giant political con job by the GOP from the beginning.

Let's see some goddamn accountability for once.

[Iliyah]

4. Subp thier e-mails and later their servers for delected e-mails

File the suit and let the discovery commence.

Depose Gowdy

[forest444]

5. Rethuglicans don't like tattletales.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2481223/internet/was--karl-rove-s-it-guru--murdered-.html

[questionseverything]

15. important article

Even without the murder plot, though, the facts of this case are troubling. Why were Ohio's vote totals "mirrored" to a site run by a private firm in Chatanooga, Tennessee? And is it just coincidence that SmarTech is the same firm that hosted private email accounts used to conduct White House business (in violation of federal law) and "lost" millions of messages when discovered? There are more layers to this story than an onion.

[forest444]

16. And yet not only did their ploy fail, it gave us moments like these:

In all seriousness, I'm with you on this. If this goes unpunished (as it has thus far), it will surely happen again - and we can't count on Anonymous or anyone else to always be there to catch it. It's a scary thought.

[questionseverything]

17. while the presidency was not stolen in 12 ,much to roves confusion

i believe many down ballot races have been stolen...and the worst part is they no longer need a mirror web site

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120111005635/en/SCYTL-Acquires-SOE-Software-Leading-Election-Software#.VhqtUytSKbE

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SCYTL is currently the worldwide leader in the Internet voting space and the acquisition of SOE Software, with its Clarity election management software suite, significantly expands SCYTL’s product portfolio beyond electronic voting. Furthermore, SOE Software’s strong US presence with 900 jurisdictions as customers in 26 states, including 14 state-wide customers, complements very effectively SCYTL’s customer base in the United States and internationally with customers in over 20 different countries across 5 continents, including France, Spain, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, India and Australia.

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we the people have got to oversee our own elections...that means hand counting paper ballots at the precinct level in full view of everyone, with results posted on site and on line and people checking that those results are actually the ones combined for the "win"

http://www.sweetremedy.tv/fatallyflawed/media/RTA_Fraud_Flyer_3_7_12.pdf

[Fred Sanders]

6. This is what a REAL scandal looks like, insider witness and admissions on the record. Evidence.

Fresh smoothies for everyone!

P.s. Even the NYT article is time in describing the "bitter partisan dispute" over the Select Committee to to Get Hillary.

We are a cussing the GOP of being LIARS. Say it, mass media, use the forbidden word in a sentence like, "The GOP have been proven LIARS time and time again and this is just the latest to be exposed fully".

[L. Coyote]

8. Lest we forget, throw in that important word, felony. Felony abuse of power

has a stinging ring to it. Color of law abuse doubtless extends to political witch hunting.

[vkkv]

7. Anyone REALLY surprised??? n/t

[youceyec]

9. reported this for being duplicate

[Pantagruelsmember]

10. May be enough to indict the GOP congressmen?

Depending on the credibility of Maj. Podliska, we can only hope he secretly recorded the GOP criminals or has other hard evidence, but even just his sworn testimony might get the DOJ involved.
Am I far off here or can they go after them?

[riversedge]

12. oh, the irony: turns out Gowdy's the one who's gonna have to lawyer up;

haha. Hope Eric is right.



Eric Boehlert ?@EricBoehlert 6h6 hours ago

oh, the irony: turns out Gowdy's the one who's gonna have to lawyer up; http://cnn.it/1LG9YBe

[allan01]

11. nutz.

I hope that this fellow can get some peace and not become the scapegoat . i remember when the republiCONs did this same tactic to billy .(white water and that woman). pure setup.

[Kingofalldems]

13. Fox news and other RW media WILL be smearing this guy tomorrow.

Watch for it.

[SunSeeker]

14. K & R for exposure. nt