A fired former investigator for the Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi has announced that he will file suit next month for what he alleges was unlawful termination, which occurred in June.

Major Bradley Podliska, an intelligence Air Force Reserve officer now stationed in Germany, has claimed that he was fired from the committee because he wanted to conduct a comprehensive investigation on the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, rather than focusing on Hillary Clinton, as he alleges the committee sought to do. The would-be whistleblower also claims that the staff retaliated against him for taking leave to go on active duty, which if true would violate the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.

In a CNN interview set to air Sunday on “State of the Union,” Podliska said, “I knew that we needed to get to the truth to the victims’ families. And the victims’ families, they deserve the truth — whether or not Hillary Clinton was involved, whether or not other individuals were involved. The victims’ families are not going to get the truth and that’s the most unfortunate thing about this.” He added, “I just wasn’t all in on Hillary. I was finding other officials at other agencies that bore responsibility for the post-attack piece.”

Democrats were quick to excoriate committee Republicans. On Saturday, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the leading Democrat on the committee, asserted, “These are extremely serious whistleblower charges. Republicans have been abusing millions of taxpayer dollars for the illegitimate purpose of damaging Hillary Clinton’s bid for president.”

Not so fast, says a spokesman for the Benghazi committee. It appears that Major Podliska may have been the one to arbitrarily target Hillary Clinton, which had the potential of undermining the committee’s work.

A statement provided by the committee reads, in part:

One reason, among others, for which the employee was terminated was his repeated efforts, of his own volition, to develop and direct Committee resources to a PowerPoint ‘hit piece’ on members of the Obama Administration – including Secretary Clinton – that bore no relationship whatsoever to the Committee’s current investigative tone, focus or investigative plan. Thus, directly contrary to his brand new assertion, the employee actually was terminated, in part, because he himself manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work. The Committee vigorously denies all of his allegations. Moreover, once legally permitted to do, the Committee stands ready to prove his termination was legal, justified, and warranted – on multiple levels.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) appeared last week on “The Kelly File,” and cited the impartiality of the committee.

I find this ‘whistleblower’ saga reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland, becoming “curiouser and curiouser.” Is it not odd that Major Podliska was fired in June, but news of his prospective lawsuit broke a day after a Reuters/Ipsos poll found Hillary dropping ten points, from 51% support to 41% among Democratic voters in less than a week — and then two days after more private Clinton emails were released, one of which included the identity of one of the CIA’s top Libya intelligence sources?

What a typical Clinton move — distract the public from the Benghazi and email scandals by claiming that the Republicans are out to get her. It’s no wonder that she has been compared to the late President Richard Nixon and his infamous secret tapes, the president who she, as a young attorney in 1974, worked to impeach.