Gowdy: I Never Told The Former Benghazi Committee Staffer To Focus On Clinton

House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., talks with the news media before walking to a hearing room to hear testimony from Jake Sullivan, former Hillary Clinton aide during her tenure as Secre... House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., talks with the news media before walking to a hearing room to hear testimony from Jake Sullivan, former Hillary Clinton aide during her tenure as Secretary of State, before a House panel on the Benghazi investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. A day after questioning a former top aide to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton behind closed doors, the House committee investigating the deadly Benghazi attacks is taking testimony from another member of Clinton's inner circle in closed session. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) MORE LESS
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Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, reportedly said Sunday that he had never met Bradley Podliska, a man who said he was fired as an investigator, in part, for refusing to focus his investigation on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to Fox.

Podliska, who was an investigator on the committee for 10 months, told news outlets Saturday that he planned to file a federal lawsuit against the committee for wrongful termination.

Gowdy said that he had never met him and never told him to focus his investigation on Clinton, according to Fox.

Gowdy called Podliska’s job performance “deficient,” according to the report

“Because I do not know him, and cannot recall ever speaking to him, I can say for certain he was never instructed by me to focus on Clinton, nor would he be a credible person to speak on my behalf,” Gowdy said, as quoted by Fox.

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  1. " Gowdy called Podliska’s job performance “deficient,” according to the report."

    Bit difficult to judge the job performance of a person you’ve never met.

  2. Does Draco Malfoy seriously think he has any credibility left in this matter?

  3. Avatar for klr68 klr68 says:

    That was my thought too.

  4. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Does Gowdy Doody think we’re stupid? I assure him, we’re not.

  5. Yeah…sure…you fucking weirdo.

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