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"Clicky 'da Picky"
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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He doesn’t want to end up in Fort Marcy Park
They should not do this behind closed doors. We need to see this.
First question: Mr. Pagliano, did Hillary Clinton direct you to set up a private server so she would be able to hide information from any future investigations?
He then pleads the Fifth. They could ask a number of really good questions here.
Are the classification codes stored/transmitted in the SMTP headers? Is that a known fact, or an opinion?
When they say 'messages were marked classified' or 'weren't marked classified' or 'had the classification stripped' ... is that equal to saying 'in/from the SMPT headers'?
I ask out of curiosity ... I'm a software developer so matters to me ... if that's a true/complete/accurate thing to say. Thanks!
Don’t interpret that too broadly, it was very hypothetical and based on the denials we’ve heard from the Clinton camp. They’re digging in on the “nothing marked classified in the email” stance, and technically you could make that happen by manipulating the SMTP gateway to strip certain content (classification markings) from emails before it was delivered to the recipient.
That’s not to say you couldn’t also run a program against the inbox - past the delivery point - that could also strip the markings. You could, and it would be easier. But it would also be much much easier to detect plus there could be evidence that the material was delivered with those markings. If it was done on the SMTP level instead where the markings were stripped as part of the same process where spam rejection is done, there would be much less evidence to follow up on and no chance of a pre-stripped message being archived at any point.
To give an example of what I was suggesting, another type of process that works the same way is SMTP antivirus. You may have seen messages that get stamped on the way in that they’ve been scanned with an AV program. The original message doesn’t contain that stamp, it’s added as part of the intake process when the mail is received. A sophisticated programmer could write custom code that acted in a similar way to strip classification markings.
I do not believe Bryan Pagliano was capable of that. From what I have gleaned he was more of a mid-level admin who could do things like install and configure a server, and probably also write simple agents to process messages at the application level, after messages were already delivered with classification markings. The risk there is that such an agent is going to be less reliable and there is a chance that a backup process could archive a message that was received just before the backup but also before the client agent had a chance to run. That I’d believe he was capable of; gateway programming would be something beyond his skillset.
LOL!
Depending on the time of the year, the tread pattern will determine when this puppy was thrown under the bus
I believe it was the Colorado outfit that was commissioned to delete the deletables, you know, the 30,000 yoga and recipe crappola from the New York server. No?
I wonder if he knows about specific back-ups to the famous server?
It’s been reported that the classified material was retrieved by someone on Hillary’s staff, summarized, then sent to Hillary from a non-secure computer in the summarized form - not the original form which would have had a classified “stamp”.
That would be more in line with how the Clinton Cult operates. I think it’s practically a given at this point that she has co-conspirators who are still operating at the State Department.
right and someone at the very beginning of her term had to make that decision.
They can — and will — grant him immunity whether he wants it or not. Standard procedure; because once granted immunity, he can’t refuse to testify without going to jail.
There, I Fixed it;)
"Clicky 'da Picky"
He doesn’t want to end up in Fort Marcy ParkExactly, or fly into a mountain.
Like Webb Hubbell he will "roll over one more time to protect the First Lady"
Make him do it in PERSON in front of the TV CAMERAS!!!
It is a closed hearing....Huma has a closed meeting also.....TICKS ME OFF! The Republicans are SPINELESS!!
If Congress gives him immunity he will have to testify or face criminal charges. It begins ........ Indeed!
The Constitution is the law. It contains the most serious offenses for those committing treason.
and I suggest you read this article http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/09/should_government_employees_be_allowed_the_fifth_amendment_plea.html
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