Hillary’s Primary IT Staffer Bryan Pagliano Defies Subpoena to Avoid Testifying on Clinton Emails
Bryan Pagliano, who helped maintain Hillary Clinton’s controversial email server, defied a congressional subpoena and refused to appear for a hearing Tuesday looking into the setup and deletion of her secret email account.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said he’s going to figure out what options he can pursue, but said Mr. Pagliano is evading Congress.
“When you are served a subpoena from the United States Congress, that is not optional,” he said.
Three other witnesses involved in Mrs. Clinton’s server did show up for the hearing. Two of them refused to testify, asserting their rights against self-incrimination.
The fourth, Justin Cooper, a former employee of both the Clinton family and the Clinton Foundation, did testify about his role in helping maintain Mrs. Clinton’s email account, admitting that the system did not have sophisticated security.
Mr. Cooper said the big decisions about the server and its security were made by Mr. Pagliano.
His absence at the hearing was particularly striking given that Mrs. Clinton last year urged him and the rest of her team to cooperate into the investigation into the server.
“I would very much urge anybody who is asked to cooperate to do so,” she said a year ago while campaigning in New Hampshire.
Mr. Pagliano was granted immunity by the FBI for its investigation, leaving Republicans wondering why he refused to testify, since he was not in legal jeopardy.
He did not produce the immunity agreement to the committee, defying yet another of Mr. Chaffetz’ orders.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the committee, asked whether they could go into executive session to have Mr. Pagliano show up and assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in private, so he wasn’t part of a public hearing.
Mr. Chaffetz rejected that, saying the committee is going to do its business in open session.
Mr. Chaffetz has asked the Justice Department to look into whether there was illegal activity in expunging Mrs. Clinton’s server even as the emails were under a preservation order and subpoena by the congressional Benghazi probe.
Democrats said given that, Mr. Pagliano had every reason not to want to testify in open session.
H/T – WashingtonTimes
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MOBSTERS BEHAVE LIKE THIS. MOBSTERS THEY ARE!
Why is it an has it been allowed to continue so long.CLINTON NEW AND OBAMA TO AN THATS TREASON..NOW WHY IS IT THEY GET A PASS ON ALL THE LAWS THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS. IN PLACE. OBAMA CLINTON BIDEN. AN KERRY ALL 4 SHOULD BE ARESSTED INSTEAD ALLOWED TO KEEP MESSING UP OUR COUNTRY AND RIGHTS.THERES MORE DEATH CONNECTED TO THESE 4 THAT SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO BE IN OFFICE ARE RUN FOR POTUS GET THEM OUT QUICK.
During the Hearing referenced in the article, the men who asserted their right to not incriminate themselves (5th Amendment Privilage) were asked questions regardless…
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) produced an Exhibit email; that Exhibit had a raised red square block of wording to highlight the “…you think we can get something in writing to cover ourselves? This could get us into some deep ____!”
Some day when (IF) you want to see something even MORE REVEALING IMO which comes in the last two lines of that email… One NPR employee – and I will paraphrase – states something like: “…maybe we can go in to the account and really see what they are doing!” It is meant I suppose as a joke, for he concludes:
“Just kidding! LOL!”
HRC’s sociopathology is what not only sickens her; without a moral compass, the jeopardy and harm that “comes with the territory” would create unspeakable shame and guilt upon normal folks she recently referred to as…
Hmmm? Hint: “Two baskets….”
I am one of those “deplorables” but gratefully ACCEPT that reference from someone so painfully out of touch with her fellow men and women, it takes Ammon and Ryan Bundy – – along with so many other brave men and women to reach her a lesson on GREED!
“Subject Matter Jurisdiction”; remember this legal doctrine, for it’s what the Federal Government lacks in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Occupation Trial, so that horrible episode will soon be “Dismissed with Prejudice” – the BLM only “leased” the small building, but what it MEANT and for what specific PURPOSE it served is so despicable; so “careless”, so “reckless” and so utterly “damaging to our National Security”, the legal doctrine of “Subject Matter Jurisdiction” will be the FIRST QUESTION we must ask when things seem kinda….
Our consciousness will let us know from now on; I pray…
Amen…