Posted on 06/01/2016 4:19:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
The man believed to have set up and maintained Hillary Clinton’s private email server will assert his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refuse to answer questions as part of an open records lawsuit against the State Department.
Bryan Pagliano will decline to answer questions from Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group, during a deposition scheduled for Monday, his lawyers wrote in a court filing
on Wednesday afternoon.
The move forecloses the possibility that Pagliano would break his months of silence about the server issue, even as scrutiny has intensified on his role.
Pagliano’s lawyers told Judicial Watch more than a week ago that he would not be answering any questions, they claimed in their filing on Wednesday, and asked that it drop its subpoena. The organization refused.
In the filing, Pagliano’s lawyers tried to have a federal judge block Judicial Watch from recording his deposition, given his planned refusal to answer questions. The lawyers said that a written transcription of the proceedings should be enough to satisfy the public’s interest.
“Given the constitutional implications, the absence of any proper purpose for video recording the deposition, and the considerable risk of abuse, the court should preclude Judicial Watch …. from creating an audiovisual recording of Mr. Pagliano’s deposition,” they wrote.
Videotaped depositions “pose a serious danger to deponents invoking the Fifth Amendment,” the lawyers added, pointing to past court decisions warning that the video makes a good “soundbite.”
According to the filing, Judicial Watch said it would oppose any such motion.
Questions about Pagliano’s role in Clinton’s bespoke email arrangement ramped up after he accepted a deal for immunity from the federal government as part of his cooperation with the FBI’s ongoing investigation into Clinton’s setup.
Yet very little is known about Pagliano and how he maintained the server at Clinton’s New York home.
The IT expert has previously refused to answer questions on Capitol Hill, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and rejecting requests from leaders of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to answer their questions.
Last month, the State Department said that it had lost the backup archive of Pagliano’s emails from his time at the department. However, it had been able to cobble together some emails through the accounts of other officials.
Last month, a federal judge gave Judicial Watch the go-ahead to ask Pagliano questions under oath as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit connected to Clinton’s emails, alongside key Clinton aides such as Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
Mills answered questions for roughly seven hours last Friday, during which she claimed never to have seen Pagliano interacting with Clinton or her senior aides.
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When this broke and before I stopped listening to Limbaugh, he had a guy call in that claimed he was retired military.
Apparently had all the clearances, etc. He advised that certain information, i.e. classified material, couldn’t be sent via the ‘normal internet’, like the one she had set up. He said that anything classified would have to transposed in some way from one system to the other.
There are two kinds of ‘nets’ that the military and government set up just for that purpose. The systems talk to each other and if one doesn’t have the correct security, the emails cannot be sent.
I worked in Baghdad, doing security for the State Dept. They have a SCIF in every embassy. You’re not getting in there without a TS clearance and you better have a damn good reason for being there. It’s a way that they upper level folks, Ambassadors/SES, can communicate high level stuff to another SCIF, somewhere else in the world.
If what that guy said, and I have heard others say it, is true, then this appears to be something that is being lost in all of this. How the hell was she even able to communicate with other government officials when her server/system didn’t have the proper security protocols set up in the first place.
And with all of this, she’ll still walk away ScotFree.
nadvertently, the email scandal is about the Right to Privacy, whether by an individual or his representatives in government. In America, the government is governed by its people. From a privacy point of view, is Hellary counting herself as a private citizen as well as a servant of ours? Whatever the case, William Safire summed up Hellary best, “congenital liar”. Don’t bother parsing her sentences, the truth is an alien to her.
**** “And with all of this, she’ll still walk away ScotFree” ****
Nope
This time it isn’t the elites, this time it is “We the People” and there have been many (not just Bengazi) killed and or maimed or simply compromised.
FBI has to work with a bunch of different folks and this time it is “If you can’t do your job ... we will do it for you” and that is from many different agencies.
FBI Will do their Job... or it will get done for them. It can be In Public or Behind Closed Doors... much of what we are going to learn and what Hillary already knows has already happened, the Clinton’s and Obama are simply setting a stage for the big reveal and it is coming soon.
I said it 6/02/2016 at 30 minutes into this new glorious day.
Innocent people don’t claim 5th Amendment protection.
If so, then Hillary should name names ... which SoS's have "done the same thing" ??? Rice, Powell, Albright, Christopher, Engleburger, Baker, Shultz, Haig ... et al ???
Please name some names, Hillary, please let us know who did what so that they can be dragged down into the muck just like your corrupt little self is being dragged currently .... let us know, Hillary ....
~ MM ~
She rarely puts herself in a position to be asked.
Right, and perhaps why he’s taking the fifth in this case.
Don't forget that Pagliano already has sung like a canary to the FBI. Because he got immunity to testify to them, he is talking and he's telling the truth. (His attorney would make sure he understood that you do not accept a deal for immunity and then lie. Plus, if he had lied to the FBI to cover for HRC, he simply would have lied in the civil suit, rather than have pleaded the 5th.)
“[Pagliano’s] safe now. He was in incredible danger, but the Clinton Syndicate missed their opportunity. Now that he has been granted immunity, he has certainly already spilled all the beans in videotaped depositions so it’s too late, and would look too suspicious.”
Exactamundo, and well put. I believe that Pagliano’s FBI testimony is the reason the Dems are readying a plan to supplant HRC with Biden or whomever. Pagliano knows all about why HRC wanted that server, what was on it, who paid him, etc. That testimony will have great weight in the FBI report and itself will be leaked eventually if HRC is not indicted. The Clintons aren’t going to have Pagliano rubbed out because it’s too late now. Hell, at this point, if Pagliano were to have a bus run over him, even the Clintons’ fans would think they had ordered it!
Not this time. Will HRC be hanged for treason? No. But I believe she will never be President on account of this, or that she'll make it to the White House and end up being led out of the Oval Office in handcuffs.
She made a complete ass of herself in her JW deposition, with dozens of "I don't recall" answers and objections from her lawyers.
The Clinton Syndicate is going to realize she is the next one the gov is going to try to flip, and she is also too stupid to realize the danger she is in, so she is tops on my "Not Yet Clinton-ed Dead Pool."
“The person in danger at this moment (there will be more) is Cheryl Mills.”
I have to believe that Cheryl Mills is safe. Since her lawyer is being paid for (indirectly, at least) by an HRC champion, they’ll simply make sure she bobs and weaves, or lies and goes to prison, to protect HRC. There won’t be any need to rub her out.
once he talked and cooperated with Federal Investigators he waived the 5th. He was granted immunity .
That Clinton lawyer (that Mills may have been "coerced" to approve) gets inside info on what is happening in real time, and may be the one to tell the Clinton Syndicate: "I can no longer vouch for her loyalty."
Jim McDougal willingly went to prison for the Clinton Syndicate, and may have had no intention of ratting them out, but Hillary decided he couldn't be trusted, and "Poof!" he dies in prison under the mysterious circumstance of his heart medication being denied.
NO.
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