- Pagliano approached DOJ with an offer to testify.
- His offered testimony has nothing to do with FOIA.
We can only deduce Pagliano has information associated with violations of the Espionage Act, or corruption/secret trading associated with the Foundation.
I wonder if he ever had a direct conversation with Clinton on these matters?
Interesting:
Thanks for posting, Mariner!
Ping!!!
IT guy pagliano got limited immunity..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3437907/posts?page=1#1
See mariner’s comment:
“Important information hidden in this article:
- Pagliano approached DOJ with an offer to testify.
- His offered testimony has nothing to do with FOIA.
We can only deduce Pagliano has information associated with violations of the Espionage Act, or corruption/secret trading associated with the Foundation.
I wonder if he ever had a direct conversation with Clinton on these matters?”
How many dozens of hundreds of people, from both parties, in at least 2 branches of government, knew about Hillary’s crimes? This is the type of scandal that would have taken down a GOP Admin. Hillary was SoS in 2009. This is incredible how slow this has been, with nothing to show for it.
Wow this entire thing stinks. Who is playing who? The Judge is going to look like a fool if he accepts that this guy can pled the 5th. This guy and Clinton should be serving life in a Maximum security lock-up like every other trader caught in the act.
I said it before, and now I'm convinced. Pagliano met with investigators under the terms of a proffer letter. In other words, he had "Queen for a Day" immunity. The Justice Department gave nothing away. They can prosecute Pagliano for any crime that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
The DoJ can't use any of the testimony given under the proffer letter to convict Pagliano. But if the DoJ can independently develop the same evidence, the DoJ would be able to use it. Nothing is lost by the DoJ since Pagliano would have never talked to them in the first place without the proffer letter.
I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds to me like the Justice Department is giving him limited immunity to make sure he doesn’t reveal anything damaging to Hillary...for his own safety.
I don’t believe Pagliano had sufficient clearance to view the classified documents crossing and reposed on this server, yet as an administrator of the device, the Beast’s illegal behavior likely placed him into legal peril. Maybe Pagliano’s cooperation was an effort to derail a potential investigation of himself.
More questions... Article doesn't say if Pags (might as well give him a syndicate name) contacted the DOJ through an attorney (presume) and whom that might be; current or other.
As to his directly contacting Hillary...
We can presume that is unlikely given her disdain for underlings, her lack of electronic communication knowledge (Computer Literacy and of course disdain for those that know more about such things than she does) and the ever present underlying "plausible deniability" which has been one of the foundations of the Clinton legacy.
AND... she's old. (while many of us who are older, are not)
Charge him with a few thousand felonies... then see if he's ready to talk.
Could be he approached DOJ to testify on advice of his attorneys. He set up the server, he set up the backup system, and who knows what else. He may have also handed keys to the server to others. At the very least his access to the server and making backups and giving access to others could be construed as a violation of the laws prohibiting transfer of secret documents and handling of secret documents without clearance. Hard to know exactly what went down at this point but plain reading of the law would seem to implicate him if in fact he did transfer and handle secret documents. It could be made worse if he made a backdoor for himself and surreptitiously read the emails and attachments out of curiosity.