State Dept. says it can't find emails from Clinton's IT aide

The State Department has been unable to locate any emails that were sent to or from Hillary Clinton's former IT aide at the department, according a Monday court filing.

The statement was made by lawyers responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee. The party sued for applicable records after the department failed to respond to a FOIA request.

Former IT aide Bryan Pagliano served at the department for nearly the entirety of Clinton's tenure from 2009-13. He was responsible for establishing a private server in the basement of Clinton's home, which was allegedly unknown to anyone else at the department until after Clinton had left.

Pagliano was granted immunity by the Justice Department in March in exchange for cooperating with the investigation into Clinton's use of the server, which involves more than 2,000 classified messages that Clinton sent or received during her tenure as secretary of state.

A spokesperson from the State Department, Elizabeth Trudeau, told reporters Monday that State was still looking for any of his emails that might exist while Clinton was in office, but didn't offer a timetable or more details on when that might happen.

EXCERPT---What Pagliano Likely Knows / Bryan Pagliano can shed light on several issues:

<><> Pagliano’s dual role as 1) a tax-paid US government employee, and, 2) Hillary's personal employee, opens a whole new arena for investigation, similar the ongoing scrutiny of Hillary aide, Huma Abedin (Huma worked simultaneously for 1) the State Department, 2) the Clinton Foundation, 3) Hillary herself, and, Teneo---a private company closely tied to both Clintons. She also billed herself as a "private consultant."

<><> What was Pagliano’s day-to-day State Dept job? What did he actually do, not just his job description, but actual work accomplishments? Is there a paper trail showing he did any actual work at all, or was the State “job” just a make-work position to get him on the tax-paid payroll in return for his services to Clintons?

<><> Pagliano listed himself on LinkedIn as a political-appointee saying he “Serves as strategic advisor and special projects manager to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) overseeing the operations of the Information Resource Management (IRM) bureau.”

<><> Pagliano beingemployed at such a high level inside State’s IT structure assures that State’s most senior info officers knew about Clinton’s email setup, and apparently did not, or were not, able to stop it. Unless Brian never told his supervisor about his "other" job.

<><> What was going on inside the State Department vis-a-vis Hillary's email server? Who knew about it? When did they know? Was it ever vetted/approved, and if so, by whom?

<><> Were objections raised by security personnel and how were those objections dealt with? Who is on the complete list of people who had email addresses on the server?

<><> What discussions took place inside State regarding the presence of classified information on the server? Were objections ever raised from outside State, say from the White House or the intel community?

<><> Pagliano can also speak to 1) what security measures if any were in place on Clinton’s server, and, 2) when they were instituted.

<><> Tech-savvy Pagliano had visibility into Hillary's server logs, showing any attacks or penetrations into the server.

<><> Pagliano, as a State Department employee under Hillary, had access to the State Department computer systems.

<><> Pagliano currently works as a computer contractor for State, and still has access to State Department computer systems. Has he ever been asked by Clinton to use his positions to gain information she would ordinarily not have access to, or to which she did not want her name attached?

<><> Pagliano may have knowledge of where any backups of the server are, shedding light on what emails were deleted by Clinton before her “full disclosure” of what was in fact a highly curated batch of documents.

CONCLUSIONS There is a lot to learn from Bryan Pagliano. His testimony could be like when the Feds turn a Mafia accountant, a low-level guy with access to the family jewels.

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BONUS: WRT the State Department’s Chief Information Officer, who should have stopped the Clinton email server? Well, well, she retired from State a few months before Hillary left, into a nice job at the IMF. It pays to be a winner!

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