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.
:Yeah, I’d say we have more than enough to write up articles of remonstrance against these criminal antiAmericans ruling over US presently.”
I do not disagree. Now in all seriousness, tell me how you get a majority of FR, much less America to put their housesm cars and jobs on the line for the backlish they will get.
Not even talking about their families here. Just the material crap they cling to. Anyone here with a straight face wanna try saying IN HONESTY that you would get more than 5 percent of FREEPERS by name?
Now do that math on average moderate America. Not trying to be argumentative here. Just realistic.
Somehow I missed this one...so many scandals so little time....
Another allegation described in the Inspector General’s memo says Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, put the kibosh on an investigation involving Obama’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, according to the New York Post. Members of State’s Special Investigations Division never interviewed the nominee, Brett McGurk, about sexually charged e-mails between him and Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon because Mills intervened, the report says.
http://cryptome.org/2012/06/mcgurk-chon/mcgurk-chon.htm
http://cryptome.org/2012/06/mcgurk-chon/pict0.jpg
At the height of the war and during the SOFA negotiations while countless American troops and Iraqi civilians were being slaughtered, it appears that Brett McGurk was engaged in an affair with Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon. He bragged endlessly about senior-level dinners, the secret SOFA negotiations, and “self-healing” exercises to cure his blue balls.
In a tribute to his professionalism and discretion, see emails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/80005642@N02/
5% carried forth the American Revolution. The percentage grew as the sheeple awoke to what George’s occupation became. And yes, you are just being argumentative, as usual.
Then by all means find me 5 percent of Freepers right now and post the names.
Or are you exaggerating?
Run along self-appointed contrarian. You will not goad me into exchanges to feed your sick ego.
If that was me, some 3-s treatment would be given after that.
My ego has nothing to do with you letting hyperpatriotism cloud your judgement. Find those people and prove me wrong. I really wish you could.
Just who the hell do you think you are that you can demand anything from me, much less goad me into ‘making a list’ for you?
Heck, the right blogosphere and Free Republic have been penning Articles of Remonstrance to King Hussein for five long years now.
And he's heard every one of them, which is proven by his arming up of DHS, IRS, and getting rid of any and every patriot he can find in government.
His Arrogance does not intend to respond to our grievances in the manner which we'd prefer.
Who the hell are you to make grandiose claims about what Americans will do and not back them up?
You say all these people will do something other than sit there and watch it. I can point to modern history of one scandal/overreach/ civil liberty violation after another being forgotten in a news cycle.
I’m thinking in terms of posting article of remonstrance to CONGRESS, to the critters who are supposedly our representatives in this sick regime.
A complete strawman by you, probably because that's the level your able to dance upon. I'm through responding to such dishonesty. Have nice day
Your = you’re
Well thats new. Most just reject a logical premise outright for an excuse.
But the point stands unrefuted.
bump for later.
I've posited many times recently, that the interim step before the ammo box, is mass civil disobedience. I have absolutely NO faith that Obama and his henchmen are going to pay any heed to some formal declaration by concerned and articulate American patriots.
He doesn't give a damn about any sort of established protocols of western civilization, nor does he care about (or appreciate) the history behind such acts. Like all leftist dictators, there are few things that can move him off his course.
Chief among them is, a show of force. That force needn't be violent to make an impact on the regime and their enablers in Congress. It just needs to be big, loud, angry, determined, and ongoing.
We need to take a lesson from the non-violent protests of the past which successfully brought down evil regimes, or which resulted in awakening an entire country to a great injustice.
We have a window of opportunity in which to realize our aim to restore this country to its constitutional moorings, but it will be lost if we tarry. I'd hate to see us wind up with but one remaining option to save the republic.
The problem is people value their things more than their freedom. It wasn’t like that in 1773. So few will march because their fear of an audit overcomes their fear of a dictator...as long as American Idol is on once a week to entertain them.
I’ve reached the point, albeit reluctantly, that The Republic cannot be saved at this stage. The hope I cling to is that once the collapse is over there will enough Americans left that realize what the Constitution was intended to accomplish, Americans who will have an impact upon what arises from the ashes.
Thanks for making my point without all your previous posturing.
Better lock and load before you sit down.
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