Melanie Morgan

San Francisco Threatened By Typhoid Fever.  “Antibiotics are used to treat typhoid, which may last up to two weeks even with treatment. If left untreated, up to 20 percent of patients may die and the illness may last for months. It is important to finish the course of treatment because patients remain contagious after symptoms disappear. There is a typhoid vaccine available for travelers to regions where the illness is common.”

On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to  the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key  aide effectively tried to cut the department's own counterterrorism bureau out  of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a "whistle-blower"  witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress,  Fox News has learned.

That witness is Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy  coordinator for operations in the agency’s counterterrorism bureau. Sources tell  Fox News Thompson will level the allegation against Clinton during testimony on  Wednesday before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by  Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.

Fox News has also learned that another official from the counterterrorism  bureau -- independently of Thompson -- voiced the same complaint about Clinton  and Under Secretary for Management Patrick Kennedy to trusted national security  colleagues back in October.

Extremists linked to Al Qaeda stormed the American consulate and a nearby  annex on Sept. 11, in a heavily armed and well-coordinated eight-hour assault  that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other  Americans.

Thompson considers himself a whistle-blower whose account was suppressed by  the official investigative panel that Clinton convened to review the episode,  the Accountability Review Board (ARB). Thompson's lawyer, Joseph diGenova, a  former U.S. attorney, has further alleged that his client has been subjected to  threats and intimidation by as-yet-unnamed superiors at State, in advance of his  cooperation with Congress.

Sources close to the congressional investigation who have been briefed on  what Thompson will testify tell Fox News the veteran counterterrorism official  concluded on Sept. 11 that Clinton and Kennedy tried to cut the counterterrorism  bureau out of the loop as they and other Obama administration officials weighed  how to respond to -- and characterize -- the Benghazi attacks.

"You should have seen what (Clinton) tried to do to us that night," the  second official in State's counterterrorism bureau told colleagues back in  October.  Those comments would appear to be corroborated by Thompson's  forthcoming testimony.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called the counterterrorism officials'  allegation "100 percent false." A spokesman for Clinton said tersely that the  charge is not true.

Thompson's attorney, diGenova, would not comment for this article.

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With five CELEBRITY REHAB cast members dying, DR. DREW PINSKY pulls plug on his controversial TV show.

 “I don’t have any plans to do it anymore,” the TV doc said in a new interview. “I am tired of taking all the heat, it is just ridiculous.”

Critics took aim at the MTV/VH1 and HLN star after troubled country singer Mindy McCready committed suicide.

At the time, Dr. Drew went on television to remind people that the singer had a long history of substance abuse and mental health issues and had not “sustained” her treatment, RadarOnline.com noted.

Her death was the most recent  to have hit the Celebrity Rehab alumni, which was already reeling from  the deaths of Jeff Conaway, Rodney King, Mike Starr and Joey Kovar.

 “I’m tired,” Dr. Drew told radio show Zach Sang & The Gang.

“It’s very stressful and very intense for me. And to have people questioning my motives and taking aim at me because people get sick and die, because they have a life threatening disease, then I have to take blame for that?”

He added, “Treating addiction is treating addiction and we had a program that was second to none. And we were good. We did it for 20 years.

"That’s enough.”

I think we’re all agreed the president is fading—failing to lead, to break through, to show he’s not at the mercy of events but, to some degree at least, in command of them. He couldn’t get a win on gun control with 90% public support. When he speaks on immigration reform you get the sense he’s setting it back. He’s floundering on Syria. The looming crisis on implementation of ObamaCare has begun to fill the news. Even his allies are using the term “train wreck.” ObamaCare is not only the most slovenly written major law in modern American history, it is full of sneaked-in surprises people are just discovering. The Democrats of Washington took advantage of the country’s now-habitual distractedness: The country, now seeing what’s coming in terms of taxes and fees, will not be amused. Mr. Obama’s brilliant sequester strategy—scare the American public into supporting me—flopped. Congress is about to hold hearings on Boston and how the brothers Tsarnaev slipped through our huge law-enforcement and immigration systems. Benghazi and what appear to be its coverups drags on and will not go away; press secretary Jay Carney was reduced to saying it happened “a long time ago.” It happened in September. The economy is stuck in low-growth, employment in no-growth. The president has about a month to gather himself together on the budget, tax reform and an immigration deal before Congress goes into recess. What are the odds?