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State Department Whistleblower..Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids
PJ Media ^ | 6-12-2013 | Bryan Preston

Posted on 06/12/2013 7:58:29 PM PDT by smoothsailing

June 12, 2013

State Department Whistleblower, a Career Foreign Service Officer, Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids

Bryan Preston

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.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Yes. Just think back to the SOTU address when O went after the Supreme Court and Roberts in particular. He’s been thuggin since the first campaign. As if he didn’t know about the sale of his senate seat. Yeah, right. People sure are stupid to have allowed themselves to be sold his bill of good. typical con man.


121 posted on 06/13/2013 4:24:24 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: smoothsailing; Matt Drudge
Drudge didn't have this up yet. So I sent him the link.

5.56mm

122 posted on 06/13/2013 4:38:36 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: MHGinTN

How about the Three Boxes?


123 posted on 06/13/2013 4:42:25 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: Norm Lenhart

“The problem is people value their things more than their freedom” Speak for yourself please


124 posted on 06/13/2013 4:48:14 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: Rannug

You think most people don’t?


125 posted on 06/13/2013 4:50:18 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: smoothsailing; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; Velveeta; aragorn; ...
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State Department Whistleblower, a Career Foreign Service Officer, Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids

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.

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126 posted on 06/13/2013 5:17:38 AM PDT by LucyT ("Once you've gone round the bend you've gone as far as you can go. ")
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To: MHGinTN

Principled would go.


127 posted on 06/13/2013 5:59:21 AM PDT by Principled
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To: penelopesire

We won’t vote all of them out of power. There are, though, a few lynchpins that make all the difference. Ending the government monopoly of education, including what constitutes an education is a start. Reinvigorating federalism is another. Those are things we can do only if we control the Congress for a generation or more. That should be our goal, along with controlling as many governorships and statehouses as possible.


128 posted on 06/13/2013 6:30:16 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“If Zero confessed on national TV to a laundry list of crimes the libs and their butt licking pundits in the media would praise him for his bravery. And claim it was just more proof of what a great man he is.”

We have a WINNER.******


129 posted on 06/13/2013 6:44:17 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: smoothsailing
Tie-in: State Department has hired agents with criminal records, memo reveals

They are hiring criminal thugs for State Dept's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, possibly so they can count on them to behave thuggishly against anybody who isn't 100% "on board" with the Obama Machine.

130 posted on 06/13/2013 7:02:44 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: penelopesire
How would that revelation bring down the Republican Party too though?

Because they knew about it, approved it, condonded it, gained power and money from it, and/or did nothing to stop it. The Republican Party, imo, is more guilty of destroying America because they've lied to us more than the RATs who tell us exactly how and when they're whizzing on the Constitution.

131 posted on 06/13/2013 7:20:48 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: mazda77

What in the world are you babbling about?


132 posted on 06/13/2013 8:45:55 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
I'm sure Judge Roberts, who doesn't want to lose his own adopted children, will vote properly on this one...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

133 posted on 06/13/2013 9:10:47 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: gaijin

...most amazing man there’s ever been...


134 posted on 06/13/2013 9:12:11 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: F15Eagle

I can relate. The country I was born into had a different Flag and a different Pledge of Allegiance.

Further, people would salute one and could recite the other...


136 posted on 06/13/2013 9:20:58 AM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: bgill; penelopesire

” The Republican Party, imo, is more guilty of destroying America because they’ve lied to us more than the RATs who tell us exactly how and when they’re whizzing on the Constitution.”

I posted much the same thing yesterday.


137 posted on 06/13/2013 9:55:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: MHGinTN

Was that what you were looking for? I thought it was a good starting point.

(P.S. The next TCMS will be in North Texas.)


138 posted on 06/13/2013 10:19:48 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: 1010RD
We still have a Constitution that can be reestablished and enforced by the people via election. Well, the integrity of the election process is very much in question at this stage, following little barry bastard boy's fraudulent re-election.

The only way I can imagine elections in 2014 realigning this nation is for an astonishing mad-as-hell conservative turnout that the fraud workers cannot anticipate in order to scam the election results. Barring that, the cheat factor is too well algorithm-ed to be caught or thwarted.

139 posted on 06/13/2013 10:26:14 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN
The only way I can imagine elections in 2014 realigning this nation is for an astonishing mad-as-hell conservative turnout that the fraud workers cannot anticipate in order to scam the election results.

Sadly, I don't think most conservatives have it in them to see the long game.

For example, the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference is this weekend. The stated purpose is:

to energize, train, and equip our top activists and chapter leaders on voter registration, voter education, get-out-the-vote, lobbying their legislature, dealing with the media, building a precinct organization, and utilizing social media to mobilize supporters.
Yet the reaction by more than a few is to turn up their noses at the RINOs who are speaking (e.g. Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio) and refuse to support the purpose of the conference or the conservatives who are getting involved in it to take back the GOP and Senate (e.g. Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Allen West, Michele Bachmann.)

We need to get involved early to wrest control from the RINOs. We need a plan, organization, and leadership. Without it, we're doomed to infighting and bickering and continued rule by progressives.

140 posted on 06/13/2013 12:41:53 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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