Posted on 06/12/2013 7:58:29 PM PDT by smoothsailing
June 12, 2013
The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department’s inspector general’s office until her retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protection as an official whistleblower after the State Department directly threatened her, once at her home. It threatened her with criminal charges when she turned over documents to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showing evidence that the department had watered down her report, in which she alleged that the department at the highest levels had scuttled eight investigations into a range of criminal wrongdoing.
Dallas lawyer Damon Mathias, who represents Fedenisn, said Fedenisn hired him after two diplomatic security agents spoke in a threatening manner to her teenage children at her home in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The agents arrived at the home to talk to Fedenisn about documents Fedenisn had given to Cruz and told the teens that they demanded to speak to their mom immediately, Mathias said.
Mathias says Fedenisn’s claim is that agents from State’s Diplomatic Security and other divisions engaged in very questionable and possibly criminal conduct; the Inspector General has been hampered in performing its oversight role; “and the findings they wanted to put in the report end up being left out,” Mathias said. “So you have a coverup of the coverup.”
When Fedenisn and her lawyers met with lawyers for the Office of the Inspector General, the government lawyers demanded she hand over the documents or they would refer the matter to the Department of Justice and Fedenisn would face criminal prosecution, Mathias said.
“They made it clear that they would go after her criminally,” he said.
“We refused to turn over the documents” and Fedenisn is now seeking whistle-blower protection, he said.
If this online bio is accurate, Aurelia Fedensin is a 23-year State Department officer who also served in the US military reserves as an intelligence officer. That’s not the typical profile of a crank or someone who just makes things up. The allegations Fedenisn’s IG investigation uncovered include the accusation that Obama bundler turned US ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman sought the services of prostitutes routinely, including underage girls. Gutman denies, and State denies any cover-up, neither of which are dispositive of the charges. State’s new spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, worked on the Obama campaign and has a history of saying things that are provably false. She comes to the job with no prior experience in the foreign service at all.
Fedensin’s investigations also include accusations that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail used prostitutes when they traveled with Clinton on her million mile march around the world. They also include allegations that State Department officials engaged in an underground drug ring in Baghdad, Iraq. The overarching accusation within all of this is that the State Department at the highest levels scuttled all eight investigations. Specifically, that career officer Patrick Kennedy and Clinton loyalist Cheryl Mills engineered the death of those investigations.
The State Department took Fedensin’s whistleblowing extremely seriously. CBS, which originally broke the story without naming Fedensin, reports that ”Two hours after CBS News made inquiries to the State Department about these charges, investigators from the State Department’s Inspector General showed up at [Fedenisn's] door.” That’s apparently when they threatened her kids.
With all of this swirling around, there’s a decent argument to be made that the State Department’s two scandals — this one plus Benghazi, which has a body count and includes the then Secretary of State blaming a terrorist attack on a movie — make it the top overall scandal going. It has four dead Americans and now at least three threatened Americans, and an inspector general who is now seeking what amounts to asylum in the care of Congress against the executive branch that allegedly threatened her.
It’s hard to say where all of this goes. The US State Department, Justice Department, Treasury Department, National Security Agency and military are all caught up in serious scandals, any of which would dominate headlines if not for the presence and interference from all the other scandals. It looks like our government is in the beginning stages of a collapse.
Seen Jeff Head’s latest thread?
I believe I saw a response from Jeff just yesterday, or maybe Wednesday morning ... er, this is Thursday, make that day before yesterday or yesterday morning. What is his latest thread?
Hyperpatriotism? I don’t think that’s what is motivating most of the people with that line of thought...I for one can say it is more so a push back against tyranny and corruption, and to me that’s personal, patriotism would be just a side effect. It might be seen as affecting the collective but the whole is the sum of it’s parts.
If it’s ‘A Modern American Declaration of Liberty’, yes, I’ve seen it now. I will sign the petition, hell yes!
Yep. Me too.
I should clarify. To me the word hyperpatriotism defines a person who wears flag shirts, marches in 4th of July parades...and when the rubber hits the road, is anything BUT patriotic. Their personal superextraspecial important reason for NOT doing something always stops them from acting. But boy if it wasn’t for that they’d be right there though!!!
See also Couch Conservative, Cafeteria Catholic et all.
If the people, the ones referred to in that old document the Constitution, now have all things collected as ‘public’ why not the same government that’s the counterparty to the Constitution? Why are all the secrets one way? Where’s the government’s right to privacy in the Constitution?
And they’re both leaders of the most armed gang in the country.
To ‘bring down the government’ you need a people who care. At the very least 47% don’t.
That’s my experience exactly. In country, the first piece of paper they want in their hand is a map to every whorehouse in town.
Thought I understand your sentiments can you imagine the bloodiness of that event? The elites don't go gently and the history of revolutions is failure and dictatorship.
We still have a Constitution that can be reestablished and enforced by the people via election.
The government is illegitimate.
A good point...Extreme, but good...
I agree, there is not a lot that will wake up anyone else in this country anymore...
That is why we are losing in the court of public opinion, because those who are asleep, don’t care...
And those that do see this for what it is are laughing because they know none of this willstick to anyone involved in these malfeasense(s)...Those are the dyed in the wool Obama supporters...
Some "intelligence" operator you are. Theatrics are not my gig but one doesn't have to be entertained to obtain intellectual input. Go ahead, close your mind and input because of bias. That makes you just as "intelligent" as the people we are fighting.
Well yes, I saw this. Not picking nits but that really isn’t a threat per se.
My thought was that they would be forced to slink into the dustbin of history...not that there would be a shooting war...lol. Your point is taken however. Many most likely will cling bitterly to power.
Best thing to do is pray...pray that this country wakes up and votes all the progressives out of power.
Government by al Qaeda, for al Qaeda, and against
the American people.
Is CW2 needed to protect this woman and the others?
Another well-credentialed employee speaks out.
I am about to get seriously rude right now- BUT- could we find some men in this country?
The feminist have dominated all of the men in this country- to the point where women with children have to stand up- and risk everything, including caring for their children, to fight for this country.
And that is to be expected to a cretin degree, but WHO is aiding them. Ted Cruz stands alone too, pretty much.
I am sorry- I am not a feminist and women are better at nurturing children- it is what it is, and it is so twisted that men, with male hormones, would allow this to continue.
I just got done praying to the Lord, to beg for the chance to remain in peace, and be alive long enough to nurture and raise my children, for the sake of posterity, and here I read this story, and I am heartbroken for her and what this country has become.
Why does this woman have to go thru this?
Where are the men, in the government to make a stand and do the right thing?
“...State Department officials engaged in an underground drug ring in Baghdad, Iraq.”
Seriously, I always wondered why the IT contractors at a FOB in the IZ I supported appeared stoned whenever I visited for work. I could smell the stuff but couldn’t figure where they’d gotten the weed from. I suppose now I know.
I think this is just a case of dirty laundry and sloppy management rather than some big plot. Sounds like State just has some lack of training and discipline issues much like any organization encounters from time to time. What affects them is their hubris which they will have to confront before they can repair.
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