Ex-House Benghazi Investigator Says Committee Chair Rep. Trey Gowdy Broke The Law

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/12/ex-house-benghazi-investigator-committee-chair-rep-trey-gowdy-broke-law.html

By: Jason Easley
Monday, October 12th, 2015,

Ex-Benghazi investigator Todd Podliska’s attorney is claiming that House Select Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-OK) has violated several federal laws.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber reported:

“Both Representative Gowdy and the committee have clearly violated terms of the confidentiality agreement and the Congressional Accountability Act,” said Peter Romer-Friedman, one of Podliska’s attorneys, to MSNBC on Monday afternoon.

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At issue in the new claims made Monday by Podliska’s lawyers are critical comments leveled by Gowdy about Podliska over the weekend, in response to the ex-staffer’s charge that the committee improperly targeted Clinton. Gowdy, the Benghazi committee chairman, told NBC News’ Kristin Welker that Podliska was a “lousy employee” who mishandled classified information, and that his criticism of the committee’s focus on Hillary Clinton only arose when he “was losing in mediation on his reservist claim.” That referred to Podliska’s claim that the committee retaliated against him for leaving the country to serve in the Air Force Reserves.

Gowdy tried to make the scandal go away by attacking the credibility of the witness, but in the process of smearing Podliska, he broke the law.

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A Republican whistleblower who worked for the committee confirmed that the investigation was out to get Clinton. Chairman Gowdy (R-SC) and the House Republicans responded to these allegations by violating the law while trying to smear the whistleblower.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/10/republican-whistleblower-confirms-gop.html

Republican Whistleblower Confirms Benghazi Investigation Is Illegally Targeting Clinton

Is Illegally Targeting Clinton
Oct. 10, 2015

A Republican, who formerly served as an investigator for the House Select Committee on Benghazi, confirmed that his GOP bosses are conducting an illegal investigation for partisan political purposes that is targeting Hillary Clinton

The New York Times reported:

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 rather than focus primarily on the role of the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Despite the change in focus, Major Podliska continued to work on his examination of the response in Washington to the attack, only to meet escalating resistance from his superiors, according to his complaint. In his view, they felt he was not focusing enough on Mrs. Clinton’s alleged mistakes, a criticism he considered odd given that his findings were far from favorable to her.

What Major Podliska described is an illegal use of taxpayer funds to conduct a partisan political investigation into the likely 2016 Democratic nominee.

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Benghazi Select Committee member, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called for the committee to be shut down, “Even before Kevin McCarthy’s comments laid bare the true intent of the committee, it’s been clear that Secretary Clinton has been the true target of this investigation, and the Republican whistleblower who has come forward only provides further evidence of what has been long evident.

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It is time for an investigation into the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Even committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy’s own former investigator is exposing the partisan intent of the investigation.

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