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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 06:35 PM Oct 2015

Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing 'partisan investigation' targeting Hillary Clinton






Washington (CNN)A former investigator with the House Select Committee on Benghazi is accusing the Republican-led panel of carrying out a politically motivated investigation targeting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instead of the thorough and objective fact-finding mission it was set up to pursue.

Major Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve who describes himself as a conservative Republican, told CNN that the committee trained its sights almost exclusively on Clinton after the revelation last March that she used a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. That new focus flipped a broad-based probe of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, into what Podliska described as "a partisan investigation




http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/


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Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing 'partisan investigation' targeting Hillary Clinton (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 OP
Howdy Gowdy needs to resign in shame Gothmog Oct 2015 #1
It is like a star chamber ./nt DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #2
The Select Committee to Get Hillary's hand-picked "investigators" turned on them? Sweet Justice! Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #3
David Gergen -"...More shoes to drop..." DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #4
But they'd NEVER do this to Bernie. His message is resonating with Republicans! wyldwolf Oct 2015 #6
Doesn't surprise me a bit. MoonRiver Oct 2015 #7
Kick! zappaman Oct 2015 #8
Are you surprised at how few recs this has gotten? DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #11
Nope. zappaman Oct 2015 #15
Are you surprised at how few recs this has gotten? wyldwolf Oct 2015 #9
Am I surprised? No . Am I disappointed ? No DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #10
The GOP loves to play dirty politics. UCmeNdc Oct 2015 #12
What is sad is that people who should know better abet them. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 #13
This is actually a bombshell/smoking gun. JaneyVee Oct 2015 #14

Gothmog

(145,173 posts)
1. Howdy Gowdy needs to resign in shame
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 06:38 PM
Oct 2015

His lies were first exposed by Kevin McCarthy and now by this staffer

Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #3)

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
10. Am I surprised? No . Am I disappointed ? No
Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:50 PM
Oct 2015

Why no to both? Because I am familiar with the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
13. What is sad is that people who should know better abet them.
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 08:22 AM
Oct 2015

It only means the bear eats them later, not never...

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