2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton tech aide plans to take the Fifth at deposition
"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.
"Mr. Pagliano will invoke his right under the Fifth Amendment and decline to testify at the deposition," Pagliano's lawyers Mark MacDougall and Connor Mullin wrote. "Given the constitutional implications, the absence of any proper purpose for video recording the deposition, and the considerable risk of abuse, the Court should preclude Judicial Watch, Inc. ... from creating an audiovisual recording of Mr. Paglianos deposition."
Acting on a request from another former aide to Clinton, Cheryl Mills, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan already ruled that videos of the sessions should be put under seal. However, Pagliano's lawyers say there's still a chance the video could emerge later either with or without permission from the court.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/bryan-pagliano-fifth-amendment-223796#ixzz4ANFjzegt
I can't say that I blame him.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)I wonder...
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)probably the rest of the crew too
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Who would have an interest in shutting him up?
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and that is making his lawyers nervous.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)The JDW scope is much narrower than the FBI investigation where he got immunity
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)for a mere security review people are damned SCARED, as you noted bellow.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)setting up a server in his boss' house?
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Especially considering that's what caused Mills to walk out of the FBI interview then claim attorney client privilege.
Press Virginia
(2,329 posts)DVRacer
(707 posts)I thought I was told that before any lawyer able to straighten me out?
drray23
(7,627 posts)If you have an opportunity to do so, always plead the fifth even if you are not guilty of anything. Doing otherwise may get you embroiled into more legal troubles. Anything you say can be dissected and twisted by good prosecutors.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and this is quite narrow in scope, so what the hell spooked him?
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)by going on the record for Judicial Watch with the Republicans in Congress ready to pounce. No lawyer worth his salt would have him do anything but take the fifth.