Posted on 06/01/2016 4:06:40 PM PDT by chuck allen
A former information technology adviser to Hillary Clinton plans to exercise his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a deposition next week and wants to prevent any video recording being made of the session.
Lawyers for former State Department tech specialist Bryan Pagliano said in a court filing Wednesday that there's no valid reason to make an audio or video recording of the session since Pagliano doesn't plan to answer any of the questions he's asked by the conservative group Judicial Watch, which is pursuing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit related to Clinton's private email server. The group is scheduled to take Pagliano's deposition on Monday.
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In this case his lawyers are absolutely correct, ere is no legitimate purpose for recording this farce.
If I'm not mistaken, his prior immunity was with the FBI, this testimony is in front of a Senate committee and his lawyers have stated that they have not granted him immunity for his upcoming hearing......or something like that.
“Aren’t witnesses who plead the 5th in a civil trial subject to jail time and fines due to being in contempt?”
If a legitimate judge in a real court so orders, yes.
No legitimate judge will further this publicity stunt by Judicial Watch, however, so his risk is small.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-pagliano-01441/
The US District Court for the District of Columbia isn’t a “legitimate Article III court”?
And remember - Klayman is no longer at the helm of JW.
Fitton is the guy, and he appears to be doing a great job.
Excellent point. Judge Sullivan was appointed by Birr Crin-ton.
Take the fifth is what Hillary regularly does after 5:00 pm.
Agree.
The Feds do not want him to testify in the civil case. Doing so would allow Hillary to see what he told the FBI, and give her the chance to prepare her lies.
Better that Hillary has no idea what ammo the Feds have awaiting her.
I think you are wrong. If all of the other depositions are videotaped, his should be also.
There are lots of questions he can be asked where the answer could not possibly be incriminating and a record of him answering those questions could have value.
And, if he slips up, even once, it could open the door to more.
Pagliano is a dirtbag. He already unloaded his spilled guts to the witch.
Who’s paying for his lawyers?
Well, mockery, but I'm inclined to agree with you.
Old habits die hard.
When offered the 5th wheel or a travel trailer, Arkansas brothers always take the 5th.
Come on, video that damn depositions. Trump is waiting to use the video his latest campaign commercial. If not we'll be forced to use the audio and picture of Bryan Pagliano as he pleads the 5th, over and over and over and over.
In fact if Pagliano pleads the 5th for 3 or 4 hours straight in the depo, that can sped up to fit into the latest 30 campaign spot. A voice at the end will explain the audio had to be sped up to fit it all into the commercial. A little something for the humor factor.
He still has to answer every question truthfully except he is allowed to plead the fifth to those questions that would implicate himself in a crime committed.
It’s good to know that State Department employees are unaccountable for their actions.
Spit.
LOL.....good one !
I thought the Klintoons always had their underlings use the same attorneys as themselves so that they would ALWAYS know what every other “team” member had said, and nothing ever gets said without those common attorneys present.
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