An exclusive report said that Raymond Maxwell, an official under the State Department under former secretary Hillary Clinton, was made into a scapegoat over the Benghazi, Libya attack.
Maxwell told the Daily Beast that he was fired after the Benghazi attack that left four people dead, including U.S Ambassador Chris Stevens, last fall. He said Clinton ordered the removal of an official who had no role in security decisions and said he was never told of the charges against him.
He said he was placed under “administrative leave” and five months later, he was fired. Maxwell was one of four State Department officials who were punished over security lapses that reportedly made the attack possible.
“The overall goal is to restore my honor,” said Maxwell, according to the website. “I had no involvement to any degree with decisions on security and the funding of security at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi,” he said.
Maxwell said he is seeking a restoration of his previous position, a public apology from the department, reimbursement for legal fees, and the extension of the time spent at home while on administrative leave.
“They just wanted me to go away but I wouldn’t just go away,” he told the website. “I knew Chris [Stevens]. Chris was a friend of mine.”
Maxwell recently wrote a poem over his sacking and the ensuing fallout.
“Trapped in a purgatory of their own deceit,” Maxwell wrote, according to the New York Daily News. “The web of lies they weave / gets tighter and tighter / in its deceit / until it bottoms out — / at a very low frequency - / and implodes...Yet all the while, / the more they talk, / the more they lie, / and the deeper down the hole they go... Just wait.../ just wait and feed them the rope.”
