The House investigation lacks a comprehensive focus and seeks only to investigate the former Secretary. There is nothing else to know. The former Secretary was a target of a vicious Republican smear campaign to gain political directives.
This is directly an ethics violation and in all honesty, for the monies spent it is a very impeachable offense for the Republicans, especially the chairman.
Given his profession, Bradley F. Podliska, needs a leave with full pay until this committee concludes it's work. I just don't see how he can function in his job with the pressure he faces. Every soldier has to be at his best, distraction is not an equation for success. The Democrats on the committee probably have power to be sure he is safe for the sake of his family. He is honest. He can give testimony unimpeded by anyone.
Given his profession, Bradley F. Podliska, needs a leave with full pay until this committee concludes it's work. I just don't see how he can function in his job with the pressure he faces. Every soldier has to be at his best, distraction is not an equation for success. The Democrats on the committee probably have power to be sure he is safe for the sake of his family. He is honest. He can give testimony unimpeded by anyone.
October 10, 2015By Noam Scheiber, Eric Lipton and Michael S. Schmidt
Washington — The Republican leaders of a House (click here) 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 rather than focus primarily on the role of the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The former investigator, Bradley F. Podliska, a major in the Air Force Reserve who is on active duty in Germany, also claims that the committee’s majority staff retaliated against him for taking leave for several weeks to go on active duty. If true, the retaliation would violate the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, which Major Podliska plans to invoke in his complaint, according to a draft that was made available to The New York Times.
The case is now in a confidential mediation phase, limiting what the Republican-led staff can publicly say about the matter....
