presidential race. it s one that leaves some families with some painful questions. a fired former investigator on the house benghazi committee told me that the republican-led panel looking into the fatal attack on the u.s. posts in 2012, the panel became partisan and hyperfocused on hillary clinton instead of looking more broadly at all the agencies and individuals responsible for wrongdoing. the committee today pushed back on his claims forcefully. and for the first time in a tv interview the air force reserve intelligence officer responds. bradley podliska at first blush seems an unlikely target of the wrath of his former bosses, the republicans on the house benghazi committee. an air force reserves intelligence officer podliska is a self-described conservative republican who once interned for the conservative media research center. i just want to state for the record i m not here to ab solve hillary clinton of any wrongdoing. hillary clinton in the end of this is going to have a l
clinton needs to explain? unfortunately i m not permitted to get into any more details than that. podliska says in march the investigation took a turn after the new york times broke the story of hillary clinton using a personal e-mail server for state department business. after that happened the investigation s broader focus narrowed, he says. and i was told that things were now changed. that this was going to be what they termed an agency centric investigation. this actually meant they were going to focus on hillary clinton and on the state department. i was focused on other agencies, other individuals, other organizations that, you know, for the post-attack piece were responsible and i thought were culpable and should be held accountable for what they were doing. podliska had been investigating the intelligence agencies and the post benghazi talking points why the administration initially blamed the attacks incorrectly on an anti-muslim video. in june i was meeting also o
monthly hearings with defense, state and intel officials involved. there are democrats out there who want to disband the committee. should the committee be disbanded? i don t believe so. no. i think this is a very important topic. and i think we have answers to provide both the victims families and the public. the truth is out there. and i don t want to disband it. do you think that the results of the committee based on what you saw will be fair, comprehensive, thorough, professional, honest? no. it s not possible. the victims families are not going to get a truth. and that s the most unfortunate thing about this. now, of the charge as a right wing nut job quote, it s another false unsubstantiated claim by podliska and say he was told to stand down on that specific project because, quote, he wanted to create a sensational
and conclusion not the chairman of the house benghazi committee, congressman trey gowdy declined our many offers to visit the lead to give his side of the story. in his statement gowdy also falsely claimed that cnn did not contact his committee before we, quote, rushed to air podliska s claims. again, that is not true. we contacted the committee before reporting any word of this. and then we included their statement in our very first cnn.com story on saturday. we also included their statement in our first broadcast of the interview on tv the next day on state of the union. and we invited chairman gowdy on air. that invitation remains open. aside from who will say what tomorrow s debate has won huge unknown factor looming over it. will vice president joe biden rock the world of politics, jump into this race and join the other candidates on stage? we ll look at the chances of that happening. plus, the congresswoman who says
angry at me. they said we know that you have your post-attack piece, only right wing nut jobs care about that. what they were referring to is representative jim jordan. i d worked very closely with representative jordan. i will say he s an honest, decent, trustworthy man. this guy rolled up his sleeves. he was willing to investigate any organization, any individual, any agency as long as he could find the truth for the victims families. but now podliska is preparing to sue the committee for firing him he says because of his need to take time to serve in the air force reserves and for objecting to what he calls a partisan hyperfocus on the democratic presidential candidate. the committee denies these charges saying in a statement that podliska never mentioned secretary clinton at any time during his counselling for deficient performance or when he was terminated. the committee says as the mediation process prepares to wrap, he is demanded money from the committee. the committee has r