Redibility Issues

(Fox News) - The whistleblower who told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that the U.S. embassy in Baghdad was being built by kidnapped workers — now turns out to have a criminal record.

Rory Mayberry told the panel that he was on a plane to Baghdad in 2006 when 51 Filipinos broke out in panic when they heard they were going to work in Baghdad instead of Dubai. That led to Committee Chairman Henry Waxman accusing the company building the embassy of illegal labor trafficking.

But The Wall Street Journal reports Mayberry has a string of convictions going back to the mid-1980's — including burglary, forgery and welfare fraud. And it says he was fired by the company building the embassy after only five days — because he could not prove he had proper qualifications.

Waxman says he was unaware of Mayberry's past — but that his legal troubles were years ago. And Waxman says he has other sources for his allegations against the builders.