Do you have your “shocked face” prepared? The Washington Post reports Wednesday night that a State Department IT staffer who handled Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email will plead the Fifth Amendment if subpoenaed.
The move by Bryan Pagliano, who had worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009, came in a Monday letter from his lawyer to the House panel investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Pagliano, who worked in the State Department’s information-technology department from May 2009 until February 2013, left the agency when Clinton departed as secretary. He now works for a technology contractor that provides some services to the State Department.
He absolutely has the right to invoke the Fifth. We absolutely have the right to take an adverse inference from it. http://t.co/OFXCCMhtG5
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) September 3, 2015
And we will.
@UrbanAchievr @hipEchik smart move for a criminal.
— napernaper (@naperusa) September 3, 2015
@UrbanAchievr @thamburger now we KNOW she's INNOCENT
— James Cech (@cech_james) September 3, 2015
@UrbanAchievr @thamburger Looks like a slam dunk for a grant of immunity.
— His Nibs (@MrJansTweets) September 3, 2015
@UrbanAchievr @seanmdav pic.twitter.com/kLJI1vgISX
— Ernesto Ronin (@Ronin1021) September 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/DonderolibtR/status/639249082767163392
@UrbanAchievr @redsteeze @thamburger we are getting closer to someone ratting
— Ron Fingers (@RonWFingers) September 3, 2015
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Hillary's server setup was totally appropriate, which is why the State Dept worker who set it up will take the 5th. http://t.co/cXes9xFBWi
— Razor (@hale_razor) September 3, 2015
Everything's legal until put under oath. Shit just got real https://t.co/Xog9VLhtaX
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) September 3, 2015
@gabrielmalor @allahpundit give the staffer immunity and let's get this show on the road
— Deplorable Petr (@PragueArtist) September 3, 2015
@gabrielmalor I agree. Sounds like Lois Lerner: I’m innocent but I’m pleading Fifth anyway.
— (((Grace Lidia Suárez))) (@gracels) September 3, 2015
Not surprisingly, Rep. Elijah Cummings thinks the whole thing’s a setup by Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Benghazi committee, to distract from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “He said the subpoena of a low-level aide is one of several signs that Gowdy is using the committee for the political purpose of trying to smear a Democratic presidential candidate,” reports the Post.
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