In response, Pelosi threatened to pull the Democrats from the committee,[REF] and the Democrats on the committee released the full Mills testimony, which Republicans had refused to release [REF].
In October 2015, Bradley F. Podliska, who worked on the committee as a staffer, claimed that the purpose of the committee was political, and that he was fired from the committee for going on military orders and for not focusing his research on Clinton [REF].