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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...

In an attempt to dismiss the Benghazi Select Committee as a partisan witch hunt against Hillary Clinton, an ex-committee staffer has accused the panel of being obsessed with a political agenda. Bradley F. Podliska, an investigator and Air Force Reserves officer, told The New York Times that the Benghazi committee was becoming “primarily focused” on Clinton. His comments come on the heels of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s controversial statement on "Hannity," when he said the Benghazi committee was directly responsible for sinking Clinton’s poll numbers. Chairman Trey Gowdy (S-SC), while accepting McCarthy's apology, insisted his words can't "fix the damage" done to the panel.Gowdy, again...

A former Benghazi Committee staffer who says he was fired, in part, because he complained about a “partisan investigation” aimed at former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton had ample opportunity to raise his concerns over the past few month but did so only recently in order to help his forthcoming lawsuit, according to committee chairman Trey Gowdy. “I was fired for going on military service and I was fired for trying to conduct an objective, non-partisan, thorough investigation,” the staffer, Bradley Podliska, told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday. ______ In a lawsuit to be filed next month, Podliska,...