Posted on 05/11/2013 9:09:42 PM PDT by smoothsailing
May 11, 2013
A key Benghazi whistle-blower who has allegedly been punished for speaking out against the administration is a registered Democrat who voted for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The lawyer of Gregory Hicks, the former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, confirmed the information to The Daily Caller on Saturday.
According to the lawyer, Victoria Toensing, Hicks voted for Clinton during the 2008 primary, and for then-Illinois Sen. Obama in the 2008 general election. He again voted for Obama in 2012.
“The fact is he is a registered Democrat in Virginia. The fact is he voted for Hilary in the primary and Obama and then again for Obama,” Toensing said.
Toensing added that she did not know he was a Democrat until the day before the hearing.
“I’m not interested in that,” she said. “I’m interested in government not abusing its powers.”
Hicks testified before the House Oversight Committee this week regarding the events that took place on Sept. 11, 2012 in Benghazi and recalled how the State Department told him not to cooperate with the congressional investigation into the events, which led to the deaths of four Americans.
Hicks further testified that he has been demoted since Benghazi.
“The job now is a significant … it’s a demotion,” Hicks said before the committee. “Foreign-affairs officer is a designation that is given to our civil service colleagues who are desk officers. So I’ve been effectively demoted from deputy chief of mission to desk officer.”
The State Department has denied the demotion, saying that Hicks decided to end his assignment in Libya early.
“The Department has not and will not retaliate against Mr. Hicks,” Acting Deputy State Department spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said during a Thursday press briefing. “As he testified yesterday, he decided to shorten his assignment in Libya following the attacks, in part due to understandable family reasons, and that he has followed standard employment processes.”
According to Toensing, however, the administration is simply lying.
“The State Department is lying — saying he was not demoted. It is almost impossible under law for them to take away anybody’s salary. But they demoted him to a job where he has no meaningful work,” she said. “He had a choice between no job whatsoever and a job that didn’t have any meaningful work. And I say this is like telling a starving man he can have no food or he can have the rotten beef. And if he chooses the rotten beef, is that a choice?”
LOLOLOL.
There goes one argument.
Most career public servants are democrats.
Never trust a communist. Even if you voted for them. Twice.
vaudine
Sean Smiths mother said once early in the scandal that her son loved Obama. Seems like Tyrone Woods father is a democRat lover too. But that’s just a gut feeling.
No wonder they demoted him, how dare he leave the hive! HA!
A DEMOCRAT? Damn, now I don't know whether to believe him or not.
Bet Hicks is regretting those votes
LOL.
You’re right!
It is hard to understand how he could have voted for Obama after Benghazi.
It would be too risky to have a lawful conservative citizen in that Benghazi outpost
You can bet if he was a republican we would have heard about it months ago while they discounted him as a hate monger republican.
I think more and more Dems are going to choose the right side in this issue, and maybe it will wake some of them up all around.
Happy Mothers Day.....
Agreed, but then just trying to understand Democrats for any reason is hardly worth the effort. :)
She may have liked Obama before..but NOT anymore..check out this video posted on rightscoop
WOW! Pat Smith tells Hillary Clinton ‘Happy Mothers Day’: She’s got her kid but I don’t have mine, BECAUSE OF HER
Absentee ballot? You are right. How could he vote for BO after that?
When does he get the “unexpected nighttime auto accident”?
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