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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEXCLUSIVE: Embassy Staff Undercut ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony On Benghazi
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/10/1986251/benghazi-whistleblower-hicks/Staff who served in Libya with Gregory Hicks, the GOPs primary whistleblower in this weeks hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks, undercut his story that State Department officials demoted him as retribution for speaking out, instead telling ThinkProgress about a man who one described as the worst manager Ive ever seen in the Foreign Service.
Throughout his testimony on Wednesday, Hicks seemed certain that any critique of his leadership style while serving as deputy chief of mission in Libya was based solely around anger related to his stance on Benghazi. He also blamed his subsequent assignment after being pulled from Libya in mid-Oct. 2012 on his speaking out against the Obama administrations response to the attacks.
However, ThinkProgress has talked to staffers based in Libya who counter Hicks portrayal of both his own performance and the State Departments alleged response to him speaking out. A meeting between Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Beth Jones and Hicks took place in Tripoli prior to his removal from Libya, but not under the same circumstances Hicks sought to portray. Counter to Hicks story of an unwarranted reassignment, the staff was upset with Hicks performance since he was first assigned to Tripoli on July 31, and told Jones as much prior to her meeting with Hicks.
[Jones] and her aide had one-on-one meetings with us to see if [Hicks] could be guided into being a better leader, a State Department employee posted to Libya told ThinkProgress. Literally every single one of us begged for him to be removed from post, said the employee, who spoke to ThinkProgress on the condition of anonymity, as they were not cleared to discuss personnel issues with the press.
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EXCLUSIVE: Embassy Staff Undercut ‘Whistleblower’ Testimony On Benghazi (Original Post)
warrior1
May 2013
OP
Benghazi was mainly a CIA station anyway -- not sure why State is taking any heat
FarCenter
May 2013
#3
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)1. well what do you know? the repuke toad was lying.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)6. Now theres a first. nt
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)2. I've worked in the Human Resources field ...
for better than 25 years and I have yet to meet a "whistle-blower" whose blowing the whistle was not a pre-emptive move.
I'm just saying ...
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)3. Benghazi was mainly a CIA station anyway -- not sure why State is taking any heat
Other than maybe:
- they went from the State department's building to the CIA undercover building (but the terrorists may have known where it was), and
- the terrorists captured information that led to the rolling up of the CIA's networks in eastern Libya (not sure who was resposible for destroying the info though).
WillyT
(72,631 posts)4. K & R !!!
Berlum
(7,044 posts)5. Republican FAIL. Republican LIES.
As usual.