Pleading the Fifth is explained quite simply. He was/is a government employee. He was coerced by another government worker (Hillary) to blatantly and knowingly violate the Federal Records Act of 1950. Forget about Top Secret, Secret, Classified, Foreign Sourced, etc. They were stealing government-related work documents while in the course of government work and storing it improperly in an attempt to avoid FOIA disclosures. Ignorance of the law, even after admitting she “wasn’t thinking”, is no excuse.....except in the Just Us Department who will go out of their way to cover for Hillary the Forgetful.
Surely none of you believe the claim that “Hillary Rodham Clinton and her family personally paid” for Pagliano to work on the server. It’s another dodge.
This was concocted by Hillary’s gang to dodge several bullets. They planted it in the WaPo as if an unnamed campaign source had secretly leaked it, then Hillary used the exact same words to answer a planted question about the WaPo story. She thinks:
1) this will shield her from culpability for using a public employee for her personal work.
2) that fools will believe this minor issue is why Pagliano is taking the fifth.
3) it establishes that the server was really private (whereas it actually belonged to her 2008 campaign and was operated by a government employee.)
4) that it gets Pagliano off the hook for not reporting Hillary’s “private system” as failing to meet DHS security requirements.
Major tell: the planted story and Hillary emphasized that she “and her family” personally paid for the services. Why so deliberately say “and her family”? Because Hillary never paid a dime? Because she considers the Clinton Foundation “her family”? When did these payments happen? Yesterday?
Hillary can prove her claim by producing cancelled checks to Pagliano written and signed by her, drawn on her own account, dated from 2009 through 2013. Oops, she can’t because she’s lying again.
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and never the two shall meet.
Good enough for the DoD but not HRC?
Therein lies the Clinton scapegoat....
If he gets immunity he is going to have to sing like a canary. Or be prosecuted.