Posted on 09/03/2015 7:20:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
A staffer who worked on Hillary Clintons 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 Clintons private email server while at State is politically motivated, given her presidential candidacy.
Their insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clintons 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 Clintons personal storage device are gradually eroding her support across multiple national polls.
--This report was updated at 9:01 a.m.
Will make for some interesting TV if it’s even shown publicly..................
“The current political environment” has no bearing as grounds. The Fifth Amendment is about self-incrimination, not politics.
I imagine it will be on CSPAN4, probably at 11 PM or thereabouts.
Witnesses testify. Defendants take the 5th.
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.
The optics of this hack pleading the 5th will be very bad for Hillary.
Very bad.
Gee, I sure hope he doesn’t wake up at midnight in Houston dressed in only a cop uniform?
Fishing for immunity
If it is politically motivated, why isn’t he testifying to that?
Once you plead the 5th, you cannot answer any questions at all, so he will do so..................
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.
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.
More likely the cops will be fishing his body out of the river before that happens. There is no immunity from Arkancide.
It could be that the "bearing" in this case is the guy doesn't want to end up on the klinton "Death List".
Don’t think that factoid is gonna look too swell on hillary’s resume ...
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
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)
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