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Former Clinton Aide to Invoke Fifth Amendment
nytimes ^ | 9/2/2015 | Michael S. Schmidt

Posted on 09/02/2015 7:37:41 PM PDT by Chode

A former aide to Hillary Rodham Clinton who helped set up the server that housed Mrs. Clinton’s private email account plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights in response to congressional questions about the email practices, according to two people briefed on the matter. The former aide, Bryan Pagliano, was subpoenaed to testify before the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. But a lawyer for Mr. Pagliano, Mark MacDougall, has told the committee that Mr. Pagliano will decline to answer their questions and assert his Fifth Amendment privilege. ​Mr. ​Pagliano was the information technology director for Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign and then worked at the State Department as an adviser and special projects manager for its chief technology officer, according to his LinkedIn page. He left the State Department in February 2013, the same month Mrs. Clinton stepped down as secretary of state. It’s not clear why Mr. Pagliano is refusing to answer questions about the server. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating how classified information was handled in connection with the account, but no evidence has surfaced that Mr. Pagliano had anything to do with how those materials were handled. ​Mr. ​MacDougall declined to comment. The Republican-controlled committee had planned to call Mr. Pagliano to testify behind closed doors, similar to how it has interviewed ​some top aides to Mrs. Clinton​,​ and Americans who were on the ground in Benghazi.​ ​Even if Mr. Pagliano does not back down from his refusal to testify, the panel will most likely still call him to testify and force him to invoke the Fifth Amendment rights in ​person, in ​response to questions.​ Mr. Pagliano’s response to the subpoena was first reported by The Washington Post Mrs. Clinton’s longtime lawyer and adviser, Cheryl Mills, is scheduled to testify

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KEYWORDS: 2; 20120911; 201302; 5thamendment; bryanpagliano; clintonemail; clintonloyaltycult; hillaryemailserver; macdougal; markmacdougal; pagliano; pleadthefifth
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To: Chode
and so it begins...

I guess you missed the thread yesterday where we were discussing how the phrase "and so it begins..." had been used more times than a cheap D.C. prostitute.

Or maybe you were there ?

21 posted on 09/02/2015 7:51:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: jsanders2001

Is Witness protection available ?


22 posted on 09/02/2015 7:52:32 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
What is it with all of these communist DemocRATS taking the Fifth all the time?

Well, D'OH!

There is absolutely NO downside to refusing to testify, for the express purpose of avoiding self incrimination.

If there was no possibility of self-incrimination, only physical evidence can determine if a crime has been committed.

I assume that testifiers are questioned under oath.

If the purpose of invoking the Fifth is to avoid incriminating others, then perjury has been committed.

Isn't that also a serious crime?

Setting up a private server is not a crime.
Directing someone else to set up a private server, knowing that it IS a crime, is prosecutable.

23 posted on 09/02/2015 7:54:28 PM PDT by publius911 (Pissed?? You have NO idea!)
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To: Chode

He was employed to do what she asked concerning electronics/technology. She, however, will let him hang so I would take the 5th, too.


24 posted on 09/02/2015 7:55:12 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ; Prepping can save you life today.)
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To: Chode

Won’t be long before Huma, Cheryl, Bill and others do the same thing.


25 posted on 09/02/2015 7:56:50 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Chode

26 posted on 09/02/2015 7:57:14 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Chode

Bryan Pagliano is a Research Director on the government team covering shared services, mobile computing, digital government, and cloud computing.

27 posted on 09/02/2015 7:57:16 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Chode

Bingo. I had this guy pegged as the key man the moment it came out that he had set up her server.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3325915/posts?page=50#50

His alternative to pleading the Fifth was to be the latest entry in the Clinton Body Count, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise.


28 posted on 09/02/2015 8:00:10 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: hoosiermama

> Is Witness protection available ?

WITSEC wouldn’t protect someone from the likes of Hillary or Obama. Way too many connections and weak security links


29 posted on 09/02/2015 8:01:55 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: publius911

Setting up a private server knowing its purpose was to be a conduit for the selling of national security secrets might be a crime.


30 posted on 09/02/2015 8:02:39 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Chode

Bump


31 posted on 09/02/2015 8:03:59 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Chode

https://mobile.twitter.com/bryanpagliano

“@BryanPagliano: It takes DISA 3.5 hours to activate a single classified mobile phone — here’s why — FCW fcw.com/Articles/2014/… via @FCWnow”


32 posted on 09/02/2015 8:06:06 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: sourcery

Yeah, like they did with Lois Learner.


33 posted on 09/02/2015 8:07:25 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Chode

The article states Mills is supposed to testify tomorrow. Must be a closed hearing because I haven’t found anything on C-SPAN or the Select Committee’s site about it. Drat!


34 posted on 09/02/2015 8:08:46 PM PDT by radu (May God watch over our troops and keep them safe)
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To: Nep Nep

Great call. I’m wondering if he was upfront with her about the lack of security in a home brewed system, but she overrode his warnings and said do it anyhow. He had to know it could be compromised.


35 posted on 09/02/2015 8:09:41 PM PDT by randita (...Our First Lady is a congenital liar - William Safire, 1996)
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To: Chode

Bryan Pagliano...how he disgraces we Americans of Italian descent.


36 posted on 09/02/2015 8:10:16 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: randita
Maybe, but that's not the important part.

The important part is that Bryan Pagliano knows where the backups of the server which contain evidence of Clinton's high treason are!

37 posted on 09/02/2015 8:10:51 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: radu

The House Benghazi Committee rejected a request from Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff at the State Department, to have her testimony occur in a public session later this week, a source close to Mills said.

Mills’ desire for open testimony — a request made because she fears Republicans will leak selected information that casts her in a negative light — is just the first disagreement in what’s likely to be a tense session Thursday, when she appears before the panel a day before Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s top policy guru, is also hauled in for questions.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/benghazi-panel-deny-cheryl-mills-testify-hillary-clinton-213238#ixzz3kdqGoiEf


38 posted on 09/02/2015 8:10:51 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Chode

It will come down to the meaning of the word “IT”.


39 posted on 09/02/2015 8:11:01 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Chode

You can bet there will be may more. Hopefully there will be a whistle blower or two coming out of it. Hillary’s pot was on simmer, and it appears its beginning to boil. I’ll wait for the lid to pop. Maybe she’ll end up as a bagger at the commissary at Ft Leavenworth. Wishful thinking I’m sure, for her the privilege factor carries a lot of weight.


40 posted on 09/02/2015 8:11:54 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HEY)
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