Former Benghazi Investigator Says He Was Fired Unlawfully
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON The Republican leaders of a House committee who have been in a bitter partisan battle with Democrats are enmeshed in a new fight with one of the committees former staff members.
A former investigator for the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi plans to file a complaint in federal court next month alleging that he was fired unlawfully in part because his superiors opposed his efforts to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic mission in the Libyan city rather than focus primarily on the role of the State Department and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The former investigator, Bradley F. Podliska, a major in the Air Force Reserve who is on active duty in Germany, also claims that the committees majority staff retaliated against him for taking leave for several weeks to go on active duty. If true, the retaliation would violate the federal Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, which Major Podliska plans to invoke in his complaint, according to a draft that was made available to The New York Times.
The case is now in a confidential mediation phase, limiting what the Republican-led staff can publicly say about the matter.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/former-benghazi-investigator-says-he-was-fired-unlawfully.html
Demeter
(85,373 posts)cstanleytech
(26,277 posts)damage a political rival.
Kingofalldems
(38,443 posts)Thespian2
(2,741 posts)will fire the entire Repukian party...
wolfie001
(2,222 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Oh how I'd love to hear that sentence spoken to the Repuke-led staff as they are led away in handcuffs. On network and cable TV (plus YouTube, and other online channels).
Alas, their prosecution will be shrouded from the public thanks to confidential mediation. (How the fuck is that allowed?!?)
Good luck and Godspeed to you MAJ Podliska, and thank you for your service!
louis-t
(23,284 posts)"He was fired for not doing his job."
His job being, don't really investigate, just repeat lies about Clinton that we tell you to repeat..........
C Moon
(12,212 posts)Gothmog
(145,063 posts)youceyec
(394 posts)is that he claims the committee is PARTISAN. This should have been the headline of this post.
Mine did, and it got locked. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141230461
Dont care if it was "Duplicate", this story is not about him being fired. Its about another claim of pure partisanship against HC.
Ptah
(33,023 posts)riversedge
(70,182 posts)the experience of posting a so-called dupe also-when I thought the focus was different and more accurate. --and it got locked. Crapola.
youceyec
(394 posts)another "duplicate" post with the more appropriate headline (just like mine)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141230595
but this one isnt locked? why am i being targeted for thread locking?
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)Any later postings are locked as duplicates, not because of the headlines.
I support Hillary as the Democratic candidate for President and I would have posted either of the other headlines, if I had found them earlier.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Squaredeal
(395 posts)...then it must be a duck.