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Ex-Clinton aide expected to plead the Fifth before House panel
The Hill ^ | September 03, 2015, 08:03 am | Staff

Posted on 09/03/2015 7:20:49 AM PDT by Red Badger

A staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server while she was secretary of State is expected to plead the Fifth rather than testify before Congress.

Lawyers for Bryan Pagliano indicated the former IT employee will assert his constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment not to answer questions from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, citing the "current political environment."

Pagliano is scheduled to appear before the House Benghazi Committee on Sept. 10.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the panel, said in a statement that the panel's investigation of Clinton’s private email server while at State is politically motivated, given her presidential candidacy.

“Their insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clinton’s presidential campaign at all costs has real consequences for any serious congressional effort,” said Cummings, ranking member on the Benghazi Committee.

Top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills is scheduled to be deposed by the committee on Thursday.

Clinton is under fire for her use of a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of State.

Voter concerns over Clinton’s personal storage device are gradually eroding her support across multiple national polls.

--This report was updated at 9:01 a.m.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 201509; 20150910; 5th; a5; benghazi; bryanpagliano; cherylmills; emails; guilty; hillary; mills; pagliano; patrickkennedy
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1 posted on 09/03/2015 7:20:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Will make for some interesting TV if it’s even shown publicly..................


2 posted on 09/03/2015 7:21:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

“The current political environment” has no bearing as grounds. The Fifth Amendment is about self-incrimination, not politics.


3 posted on 09/03/2015 7:24:03 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Red Badger

I imagine it will be on CSPAN4, probably at 11 PM or thereabouts.


4 posted on 09/03/2015 7:26:03 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Red Badger

Witnesses testify. Defendants take the 5th.


5 posted on 09/03/2015 7:26:05 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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To: Red Badger

Pagliano worked for the State Department AND as a private employee of Hillary Clinton.

He took our hard-earned taxpayer dollars and gives his loyalty to Hillary?

We paid him. He owes us.

If he’s going to lawyer-up, then let’s point out how so many government employees are paid with hard-earned tax dollars while they put their priority in working for the Democrat Party.


6 posted on 09/03/2015 7:29:20 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The optics of this hack pleading the 5th will be very bad for Hillary.
Very bad.


7 posted on 09/03/2015 7:31:23 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Red Badger
Now it appears a hacker has Hillary's email and is going to sell it. Hillary is in jail and toast.
Also it appears Obama is related to USA hacking, too much coincidence that this happened to Hillary now.
8 posted on 09/03/2015 7:32:46 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women)
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Gee, I sure hope he doesn’t wake up at midnight in Houston dressed in only a cop uniform?


9 posted on 09/03/2015 7:41:08 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: tennmountainman

Fishing for immunity


10 posted on 09/03/2015 7:41:32 AM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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To: Red Badger

If it is politically motivated, why isn’t he testifying to that?


11 posted on 09/03/2015 7:43:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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Once you plead the 5th, you cannot answer any questions at all, so he will do so..................


12 posted on 09/03/2015 7:44:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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the former IT employee will assert his constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment not to answer questions from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, citing the "current political environment."

The Fifth Amendment protections are against self-incrimination, not the political climate.

If he doesn't want to incriminate himself in a crime, he can plead the 5th; but he can't if it's just about limiting political exposure or concealing another person's crimes.

13 posted on 09/03/2015 7:45:30 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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I predict he will speak to it being politically motivated and then be jailed for refusing to testify after relinquishing his 5th Amendment rights.

It’s a far better optic for his master.


14 posted on 09/03/2015 7:49:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: hoosiermama
Fishing for immunity

More likely the cops will be fishing his body out of the river before that happens. There is no immunity from Arkancide.

15 posted on 09/03/2015 7:49:25 AM PDT by henkster (Ms. Clinton, are you a criminal or just really stupid?)
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To: Red Badger
He'll plead the Fifth, she'll drink the Fifth...

BURP!!!


16 posted on 09/03/2015 7:49:26 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Genoa
“The current political environment” has no bearing as grounds. The Fifth Amendment is about self-incrimination, not politics.

It could be that the "bearing" in this case is the guy doesn't want to end up on the klinton "Death List".

17 posted on 09/03/2015 7:49:44 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama's regime exists because of the most inept and corrupt congress in history.)
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To: Red Badger

Don’t think that factoid is gonna look too swell on hillary’s resume ...


18 posted on 09/03/2015 7:49:45 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Red Badger

The republicans will allow him to make a 30 minute statement in which he exonerates himself and Rodham Clinton - then he’ll take the Fifth and all that will be reported is how Hillary is exonerated. It’s Lois Lerner redux


19 posted on 09/03/2015 8:00:52 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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Lois Lerner did the same thing and she walked away into a well paid vacation at the taxpayer expense with Trey Gowdy going - “ wait! What!? Um ! you can’t do that!!!! ( burble burble gasp gasp)


20 posted on 09/03/2015 8:03:37 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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