Posted on 03/22/2016 5:09:50 PM PDT by McGruff
A former congressional staffer who accused the House Select Committee on Benghazi of running a politically biased investigation targeting Hillary Clinton has dropped that claim from his wrongful termination lawsuit.
Bradley Podliska made the claim in several interviews last October that he was fired from the committee led by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy after taking leave to fulfill his military service obligations and because he did not go along with the panel's focus on the former secretary of state surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2012, when four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya.
Clinton allies and Democrats embraced Podliska's charges in the lead-up to her high-stakes hearing before the committee as evidence that the investigation into the Benghazi attack was politically motivated and not a fact-finding mission.
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Is Bradley GAY?? What REAL MAN would cover for Hillary??? NONE!!!
Funny that as news of the cooperative IT witness came out more and more (and maybe there is MORE THAN ONE), he suddenly lost his taste for his suit.
Interesting.
Bribery?
Intimidation (a la Ft. Marcy Park)?
Wouldn’t put either/both out of the running.
(Clarifying that I was referring to both being from the Clinton camp for their actions)
Rats jumping ship.
In an interview with CNN, Podliska charged that “there was very little work actually being done” by the committee, where staffers were “surfing the Web all day long” and even “drinking during the work day.” He claims that staffers set up a “gun buying club” and would spend “hours at a time” designing custom firearms.
There is one public source of insight into Podliska’s temperament and personality: in 2011, he participated in the Post’s Date Lab feature, where strangers are set up on blind dates and share their feelings about the experience with readers.
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Podliska, an Air Force reservist, alleges the panel discriminated and retaliated against him because he took military duty leave to serve several weeks overseas — and because he would not tailor his investigation to center on Hillary Clinton. The committee disputes both accounts, arguing a panel run by ex-military members would not punish someone for serving, and that Podliska himself had partisan tendencies.
Also on Monday, Podliska’s lawyers moved to seal some personal contact information about Podliska originally included in the Friday filing. The judge agreed.
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He was asked to resign in lieu of termination, according to court documents. In October 2015, Podliska, claimed that the purpose of the committee was political, and that he was fired from the Committee in part for not focusing his research on Hillary Clinton. He filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in November of that year, but in February 2016 amended his complaint, dropping all mention of his Clinton-related allegations. Politico had reported in October that there was also no mention of Clinton “in a preliminary Sept. 11 legal document laying out his case against the panel, according to a copy of that document.
Benghazi Committee: Spurned Staffer Lying About Why He Was Fired, Trying To ‘Blackmail’ Us
Podliska said that a superior told him he was fired for using work email for social purposes, failing to secure classified information, and giving an intern an “unauthorized assignment” to do. Podliska denied to CNN that he handled classified information on a system that was not classified, and also denied the “unauthorized assignment” bit. But the committee says otherwise.
Podliska has been developing imaginative stories for his dismissal ever since he was fired, including in confidential mediation sessions.
“The former employee in question was terminated for cause and his complaint is currently in mediation, which by law is required to be kept confidential by both sides,” a Benghazi committee spokesperson told Breitbart News. “The former employee has violated this confidentiality requirement in a public way, forcing the Committee to respond with the following limited statement.”
“Thus, directly contrary to his brand new assertion, the employee actually was terminated, in part, because he himself manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work,” the statement continues. “The Committee vigorously denies all of his allegations. Moreover, once legally permitted to do, the Committee stands ready to prove his termination was legal, justified, and warranted – on multiple levels.”
But Podliska changed his story after he was dismissed, presumably to get media attention, according to the committee.
‘Whistleblower’ is a Professional Storyteller
Insulted woman in performance with Virginia-based storytelling group
The former staffer has some experience with storytelling. Podliska performed last year with the live Virginia-based storytelling group “Better Said Than Done,” where he recounted a terrible blind date he went on as part of the Washington Post’s “DateLab” feature in 2011.
His story started out mild and self-deprecating, but he soon launched into a tirade of insults against the woman.
According to Podliska, his date was a drunken disaster who “liked to drink like a fish” and told him to “quit the chit-chat, I’m here to drink on the Washington Post’s dime” when he attempted polite conversation.
By the end of the night, Podliska said, the woman “was looking as if she had run 300 miles in a tornado, while jumping on a trampoline, all while upside down, underwater. In other words, she was two sheets to the wind.”
The story is at odds with the Washington Post article from 2011, in which Podliska said he tried to set up a second rendezvous with the woman but was shot down.
her as a person, but like I said, after that 150 milliseconds, it takes six or seven significant steps to turn that first impression,” said Podliska. “So I was open-minded; I was like, maybe something will change my mind here, but that just never occurred. I [said]: ‘I really enjoyed your company, and I’d like to see you again,’ and she said, ‘We’ll see how it goes.’ But we didn’t have each other’s phone numbers, there’s no way to get in touch again. So it was clearly a throwaway line.”
The woman also did not call Podliska a “Neanderthal” in the article for walking her to the Metro. She told the Post that it “was nice; he wanted to make sure I got there safely.”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/benghazi-committee-whistleblower-is-a-professional-storyteller/
Congressman Gowdy had this to say in a statement obtained by Mediaite of ex-staffer—make that fired staffer—Bradley Podliska’s allegations:
Because I do not know him, and cannot recall ever speaking to him, I can say for certain he was never instructed by me to focus on Clinton, nor would he be a credible person to speak on my behalf… In fact, when this staffer requested interns do a project that focused on Clinton and the National Security Council, he was informed by the Committee’s deputy staff director his project was “not approved.”
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