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.
Bye, bye Thighness, bye bye
Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
grumpygresh ~:” “The NSA only collects the data...it takes the DOJ to secure judiciary approval to MINE the data. “
With all the private contractors our there working for the NSA, they collect and mine as they see fit. I’m sure there are a few ethical NSA people, but we all know what the ethically challenged could do with access to unlimited personal information...
As far as the DOJ is concerned, they are just 0bama’s Gestapo and they are primarily concerned with taking care of whistleblowers and political enemies.”
Absolute power corrupts absolutely !
One of the things that I have learned over the last two days is that no one really oversees or supervises NSA .
There may be people assigned .. but they are reluctant , or ignorant as to who is doing what , and with what information .
In essence , there is no oversight / supervision of NSA.
Since there is no oversight , they can lie or be less than truthful at whim or convienience .
Whoa. ..WTH!?!?
This is serious stuff.
The Scandalanche continues to roll downhill. Seems to even be gaining speed and momentum this week.
Yep. He's become the ONLY one I trust in the Senate.
5.56mm
The State Department is so corrupt that they should be abolished, levelled like Carthage, and hiring started over again.
I met great SD/FSO’s in Vietnam and Cambodia during the war, and they were professionals who risked their lives to help win the war, as well as to get out important information on Communist genocide tactics and strategies.
One accompanied us while we went out to meet over 100 refugees from VC/NVA captivity who escaped en mass. The FSO’s translating was of great help to us in getting the stories about what these people saw and suffered under communist occupation.
Given that the State Dept. has been run by Hillary and Kerry, it is no wonder that they have been corrupted from top to bottom.
I feel sorry for the good State Department employees who died in the line of duty (including Benghazi), only to be betrayed by Obama and the Democrats.
When is America going to wake up and vote out these commies, crazies and corrupt politicians and their lackeys?
If that were to come out it would be VERY easy for this administration to ‘suicide’ Roberts from the ‘shame’. And pick the Chief Justice themselves.
Let’s hope not.
We DID vote them out, but we weren't the ones counting the votes, remember?
Besides, at the pace things are unraveling, I'm thinking we need to move to other constitutionally approved processes to rid ourselves of these monsters. If those aren't allowed to be implemented, then our reference of last resort is the Declaration of Independence.
No need to be so rude, CM. It was in jest that I suggested Beck’s latest shocking information that will lead to the collapse of the government was related to his last shocking information regarding Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi. You’re right, he didn’t say Napolitano was going to be impeached, he said that she was going to serve jail time for perjury. As I recall, he gave the administration an ultimatum to come clean or he would drop the hammer. If the story went anywhere after about April 25th, it must have done so very quietly because I never heard Glenn mention it again, and I was following it for awhile afterwards.
rogue government......who are these people that are marching to these commands?.....where is the solid American citizens in the govt?......how could they do this?
Ted Cruz is a patriot, a fighter, articulate and he knows his subject matter. I trust him as well.
This is the ‘end game,’ for all the marbles,” he stated.
“Him and Trent Franks for me.”
Don’t forget Sen. Lee and Cong. Gowdy.
Because people who think ‘lesser evils’ are OK PUT THEM THERE and are too self important to admit it.
Because all the Repubs sitting on their asses doing nothing about any of this and acting like Democrats didn’t get there by accident. SOMEONE elected them.
Nothing against them, I just am not up on them historically.
I'd say we are at that stage, with the regime empowering czars and regulators to cancel individual rights and data mining operations designed to have material to use against ANY American the regime decides is opposed to their agenda.
We have a private banking cartel in complete control of our monetary health (making US sicker by the day!), and we have a cic who ignores the lives of those being attacked by the enemies of this Republic nation.
The regime lies to the people daily and ignores and covers over degeneracy in their ranks of appointees.
The IRS is being positioned to run all healthcare in America, the same agency that is being exposed as political hitmen/women (must not leave out the despicable Lerner) without a law to back their demand that we the individual people pay income taxes so the interest to the private banking cabal can be paid.
Yeah, I'd say we have more than enough to write up articles of remonstrance against these criminal antiAmericans ruling over US presently.
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