Story highlights The investigator suing the House Benghazi committee seems to be no longer arguing that the group forced him to center his probe on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

In a 29-page amended court filing last month, former Benghazi investigator Bradley Podliska makes no mention of Clinton, who was originally a central player in the suit.

Washington (CNN) A former congressional staffer who accused the House Select Committee on Benghazi of running a politically biased investigation targeting Hillary Clinton has dropped that claim from his wrongful termination lawsuit.

Bradley Podliska made the claim in several interviews last October that he was fired from the committee led by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy after taking leave to fulfill his military service obligations and because he did not go along with the panel's focus on the former secretary of state surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2012, when four Americans were killed in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton allies and Democrats embraced Podliska's charges in the lead-up to her high-stakes hearing before the committee as evidence that the investigation into the Benghazi attack was politically motivated and not a fact-finding mission.

He sued the committee in November, but in a 29-page amended court filing last month, all references to Clinton have been removed.

Peter Romer-Friedman, one of Podliska's attorneys, said the change does not mean the bias claim is untrue. "The changes to the factual allegations of the complaint does not mean that Major Podliska is recanting his criticisms of the committee or the focus of its investigation," Romer-Friedman said.

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