Clinton Campaign: We Wanted Staffer Who Set Up Email Server To Testify

[antigop]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign encouraged a former State Department employee who helped set up her private email server to testify before the House committee on Benghazi.

Attorneys for Bryan Pagliano on Monday notified the committee that their client would invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to testify at a hearing next week.

An anonymous Clinton campaign aide told The New York Times that Pagliano's decision was "both understandable and disappointing."

“We had hoped Bryan would also agree to answer any questions from the committee and had recently encouraged him to grant the committee’s request for an interview,” the aide told the Times, adding that the campaign believes Pagliano "has every reason to be transparent about his I.T. assistance."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-campaign-bryan-pagliano-testimony

[jeff47]

1. Suuuuuuuuure. (nt)

[Tea Potty]

2. Mhmm

Uhuh

[TwilightGardener]

3. We're soooo disappointed (that he refuses to open his yap and throw himself under the bus).

[jtuck004]

4. Bet you didn't. n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. So Mr. Pagliano was subpoenaed by Trey Gowdy's Benghazi Committee with no input from Democratic Comm

So Mr. Pagliano was subpoenaed by Trey Gowdy's Benghazi Committee with no input from Democratic Committee members,ergo:

A Democratic committee source says there was "no debate or vote by the select committee" about the decision to issue Pagliano subpoena.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/politics/clinton-aide-fifth-amendment-emails/

This is a war, this is a battle, this is a street fight. I have chosen the side I am on and those on the other side are my eternal enemies no matter whom they are, whom they claim to be, and whom they claim to support.

[Metric System]

8. The Sanders supporters above you seem to think he's involved in a Clinton cover-up. They're Team

Howdy Gowdy.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I prefer not to point fingers at anybody.

I prefer not to point fingers at anybody. I subscribe to the maxim that "by their deeds you shall know them."

[LannyDeVaney]

15. Yep, I've decided to just ignore their snipes and quit replying ...

(Not comparing them to Republicans because those get jury hidden EVERY.TIME.)

No matter what happens, they've made their minds up. Any story is a cover-up. She is guilty in their minds.

(Not comparing them to Republicans because those get jury hidden EVERY.TIME.)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. Yes, one must be careful of those that are fond of the alert option.

eom

[Fred Sanders]

42. Getting all information backwards on Clinton and ending up "accidentally" supporting the GOP misinformation seems to be infectious.

[TipTok]

12. What's to debate?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. The appropriate use of subpoena power and the scope of the committee.

Oh, and a warm welcome to Democratic Underground. May your stay here be everything you expect it to be.

[thesquanderer]

6. Bet the Benghazi committee offers him immunity (n/t)

[madville]

7. A Congressional Committee granting immunity is tricky

It basically taints evidence the DOJ might use to prosecute that person, makes anything they testify about inadmissible. Think about Oliver North, everything he testified about before Congress became inadmissible before a federal court because he was granted immunity by Congress.

It's a big separation of powers issue.

[thesquanderer]

13. But the benghazi committe doesn't care about prosecuting this guy.

They just want to fish for something they can nail on HRC.

Even *if* this guy did anything illegal (which can NOT be assumed simply based on his invocation of the 5th), this committe doesn't care if he gets away with it. So it's not an issue for them.

[HubertHeaver]

9. He felt a pair of hands in the small of his back

and saw a bus approaching.

[Fred Sanders]

44. More like the Koch Brothers still have their hands up the ass of Gowdy and are twisting their fingers.

[HubertHeaver]

46. That too

[Fred Sanders]

11. The fucked up neo-GOP is doing a repeat of the failed Bengazhi smear...controlling the information..

as all good fascists know to do...and controlling the ever willing mass media.

[JoePhilly]

20. Its more like Whitewater ... investigating a land deal they discover a BJ 6 years later.

[Puzzledtraveller]

25. It's not Benghazi, and though the GOP is loving it, they are not behind it.

Do you think President Obama likes Hillary Clinton? Why did our president give Joe Biden a nod to run recently stating he would make a good president?

[Fred Sanders]

31. President Obama pretty much likes everyone! Not a fair question at all.

And when everyone actually gets to meet the real President, not the mock-up artificial construct created by the mass media, pretty much everyone likes President Obama! A true strong loved leader that America already has, a twice elected leader with 84% approval within his own political party too many Americans unfortunately may not know much about!

Just ask Alaskans!

[pocoloco]

35. The Clintons’ plan to counterattack Obama

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/2/monica-crowley-the-clinton-scheme-to-counterattack/

[Fred Sanders]

36. Washington Times/Fox's Crowley? No thanks.....those are RW messengers I shoot on sight!

Try again? Without links to RW blabberings?

Not too many at DU fond of those kinds of messages and messengers!

[reddread]

37. you cant get the time of day from an Ostrich

I wouldnt bother believing a word out of any corporatists mouth.
I'll trust my own lying eyes.

[SunSeeker]

38. Is the Washinton Times your go-to source for news and information? nt

[Fred Sanders]

39. Wait for it......"Don't shoot the messenger, let us discuss the message" refrain.

There are some messengers you must shoot on sight as soon as you see the "whites" of their Fox-addled blood-stained crazy eyes.

Is suppose a broken clock IS indeed right twice a day....... but who the fuck wants to stare at a broken clock all day to catch a glimpse of two minutes?

[SunSeeker]

40. You know them by their choice of messengers. nt

[Fred Sanders]

41. Verily, ye shall know them from the wicked stench of a hundred paces of the packages of stink being delivered.

Shoot first, explode the package remotely from a safe distance, is my motto for these messengers at anytime or place mostly...... and at DU always.

[Geronimoe]

17. What is he afraid of?

Did he copy Hillary's emails and sell them to Russia and China? I just don't get why he feels he needs to plead the 5th for something as simple as installing an email server.

[TwilightGardener]

19. He's afraid of entangling himself in Clintonian drama and being the only one

hung out to dry when all is said and done. He's afraid of the FBI asking him questions next, depending on what comes out of his mouth in front of Congress. He's doing the right thing, he needs to protect himself.

[TwilightGardener]

27. He didn't just install a server. He was a State Dept. employee, a new position was carved out

for him so that Hillary could have her own personal IT Dept. The nature of his duties is not clear. I don't think he had anything to do with Benghazi, unless he read (or tampered with) the message traffic somehow.

[magical thyme]

33. maybe responsible for the security that was on it at the time. nt

[JoePhilly]

21. The GOP would happily destroy him to get ANYTHING on Hillary.

Remember Whitewater??

Investigation of a land deal discovers a BJ, ~6 years later.

[Geronimoe]

23. What?

This IT guy gave or received bj with whom? Bill, Hillary, or both?

[JoePhilly]

24. If only ...

The charges arose from an investigation by Independent Counsel Ken Starr. Originally dealing with the failed land deal years earlier known as Whitewater, Starr, with the approval of United States Attorney General Janet Reno, conducted a wide ranging investigation of alleged abuses including the firing of White House travel agents, the alleged misuse of FBI files, and Bill Clinton's conduct during the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former Arkansas government employee, Paula Jones. In the course of the investigation, Linda Tripp provided Starr with taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky, a former White House Intern, discussed having oral sex with Clinton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_and_acquittal_of_Bill_Clinton

Investigation of a land deal morphs into an investigation of a BJ.

SOP for the GOP

[Laser102]

28. He doesn't want to be involved in this political farce. Personally I think I would do the same.

Screw their fishing expedition. It will always be something.

[Fred Sanders]

43. Never heard of "legal scope of witch hunt Congressional Committee suphoena powers"? Not surprised....

Lot of that about DU lately....purposeful ignorance of the actual issue, because the complexity of the actual issue hurts the brain!?

Which coincidently just happens to support the fascist GOP Clinton witch-hunts, 2015 version.

It was "inevitable" that the movie being played on a loop would be "Get Clinton".

Thanks for playing...for the wrong side.

DU is still NOT the place for disinformation, plenty of other sites one may like.

[cascadiance]

26. If they ask him the most important question...

"Why was this move made to a private server from government servers? What was the reason why government servers weren't adequate for what was needed?"

He'd then answer appropriately...

"I don't know. You'd have to ask Hillary Clinton that question."

[pscot]

32. They can always offer him immunity

[RichVRichV]

45. Dumb question.

What does a person that helped set up her private email server have to do with Benghazi?

Are the Republicans getting their "scandals" mixed up?