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Former Benghazi-committee staffer Bradley Podliska, an intelligence officer in the Air Force Reserve and a self-described conservative Republican, didn’t set out to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. But his public fight with the committee may be the best thing to happen to Clinton since House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy boasted that the committee’s work had damaged her political prospects. In an interview that aired this afternoon, Podliska told CNN’s Jake Tapper that unnamed senior members of the committee’s leadership had asked him to stop investigating how the Obama administration came to blame the Benghazi attacks on an anti-Islam YouTube video....

... The former investigator, Bradley F. Podliska, is an Air Force Reserve officer and also claims Republican leaders on the committee retaliated against him for taking leave to go on active duty, which if true would be a violate of federal law. ...

In an attempt to dismiss the Benghazi Select Committee as a partisan witch hunt against Hillary Clinton, an ex-committee staffer has accused the panel of being obsessed with a political agenda. Bradley F. Podliska, an investigator and Air Force Reserves officer, told The New York Times that the Benghazi committee was becoming “primarily focused” on Clinton. His comments come on the heels of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s controversial statement on "Hannity," when he said the Benghazi committee was directly responsible for sinking Clinton’s poll numbers. Chairman Trey Gowdy (S-SC), while accepting McCarthy's apology, insisted his words can't "fix the damage" done to the panel.Gowdy, again...

A former Benghazi Committee staffer who says he was fired, in part, because he complained about a “partisan investigation” aimed at former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton had ample opportunity to raise his concerns over the past few month but did so only recently in order to help his forthcoming lawsuit, according to committee chairman Trey Gowdy. “I was fired for going on military service and I was fired for trying to conduct an objective, non-partisan, thorough investigation,” the staffer, Bradley Podliska, told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday. ______ In a lawsuit to be filed next month, Podliska,...