A former aide to Hillary Clinton who helped set up her private email server has told at least three congressional committees that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying against his former boss, Fox News has confirmed.
Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before helping install the so-called "homebrew" server system in her Chappaqua, N.Y. home, was asked to testify about the server by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
"Mr. Pagliano’s legal counsel told the committee yesterday that he would plead the 5th to any and all questions if he were compelled to testify," a spokesperson for Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox late Wednesday.
A letter from Pagliano's attorney Mark MacDougall explaining his client's decision cited the ongoing FBI investigation into whether classified national security information was mishandled when it passed through Clinton's server.
"While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution," MacDougall wrote.
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7 comments:
I wonder if he will have an "accident" or commit "suicide" before being required to testify...
Maybe eventually, as the investigation continues and they see things to ask about, they can offer him immunity (except for perjury..) and compel him to testify.
Maybe eventually, as the investigation continues and they see things to ask about, they can offer him immunity (except for perjury..) and compel him to testify.
"Somebody" did not obtain the necessary approvals to attach this server to the DOD network. That is sufficient reason to claim The 5th. The server certainly was detectable but not necessarily the same computer that was approved.
Per 8:27, he was essentially a hacker into the system even though it was at the behest of the Secretary of State, Mrs. Bill Clinton, or one of her close aides. Talking serious time stamping license plates for that.
And 7:21 may be accurate that the 5th amendment gambit may be posturing towards immunity for telling all, with the proviso that if he lies the immunity vaporizes.
In the meantime he should stay away from Ft. Marcy Park, subway platforms and buses.
You are wrong 7:21-it's usually "natural causes" in a case such as this.
Pleading the Fifth is for one to avoid incriminating one's self, not their boss, Hillary. How much are you paying this guy to stay quiet?
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