Gowdy's Benghazi committee-Wasting taxpayer $$: spent hours on 'designing guns" & "surfing the web"

[riversedge]

Ex-staffer: Benghazi committee pursuing 'partisan investigation' targeting Hillary Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/index.html

By Jake Tapper and Jeremy Diamond, CNN

Updated 5:46 PM ET, Sat October 10, 2015 |


.............Podliska's planned lawsuit will ask the court to order the committee to reinstate him as an investigator on the committee and to reimburse him for wages and benefits lost as a result of his firing. His annual salary on the committee was $130,000, according to public records.

Podliska also leveled accusations about the committee's work environment, telling CNN that "there was very little work actually being done."

He said half the staff was "surfing the Web all day long" and said "there was plenty of drinking during the work day."

And while he was reprimanded for sharing an invitation to an event with his colleagues via work email, he said a group of staffers had set up a "gun buying club" for "chrome-plated, monogrammed Tiffany-style Glock nine millimeters" and that staffers would spend "hours at a time" designing the guns.

The committee spokesperson declined to address these allegations.

"It was a classic case -- and this is me, as a conservative -- of taxpayer waste, fraud and abuse," he said. "It should not have occurred."
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[Snotcicles]

1. I hope this gets some snow tires so it can get some traction.nt

[Gothmog]

2. The Republicans need to reimburse the taxpayers for this waste of money

[workinclasszero]

3. Pay the taxpayers back RNC

You dirtbags are always whining about wasteful spending and fraud, here your chance to do something about it LIARS!

[sufrommich]

4. The party of fiscal resposibility. They're going to get their scandal,unfortunately

it's not going to be the scandal they wanted.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I don't know what to think about this one.

It seems like virtually everybody involved in this case is some sort of Washington insider asshole. Right now I'm leaning toward the theory that what Podliska says about the committee is mostly true, and the allegations against Podliska also have a lot of truth to them. It just sounds like a fight between jackals and hyenas over who gets to claim the high road.

[riversedge]

6. I have reservations agains Podiska myself but glad he announced how the committee

has very little work and how they spend their time.