Clinton IT aide pleads Fifth, skips hearing

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill

By Katie Bo Williams - 09/13/16 10:24 AM EDT
The former State Department employee who set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server did not appear before the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning despite a subpoena to testify on the deletion of some of Clinton’s emails.

Bryan Pagliano exercised his Fifth Amendment right not to testify against himself before the House Select Committee on Benghazi in 2015. He was also reportedly awarded an immunity deal during the FBI’s now-closed investigation into Clinton’s use of the server while secretary of State.

“It’s a serious matter. Mr. Pagliano has chosen to evade a subpoena duly issued by the committee. I will consult with counsel and my colleagues to consider a full range of options available to address Mr. Pagliano’s failure to appear,” Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said.

“He should be here. When you are served a subpoena by the United States Congress, that is not optional,” he said. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) suggested that contempt of Congress could be an option for the committee.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/295620-clinton-it-aide-does-not-appear-before-oversight-panel-despite

[BlueInPhilly]

1. Contempt of Congress?

I do have a lot of contempt for them alright.

[blm]

2. Odd - they were fine with Karl Rove ignoring a subpoena and refusing to testify.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/10/rove.subpoena/

[still_one]

3. This is their last harrah. Hopefully we will take the Senate and the Presidency, and with a little

luck it would be great if the house turned our way

Run the clock out, and screw em

[LiberalFighter]

4. They still dragging this out? Thought the committee hearing was all over.

[cstanleytech]

5. Its a new one to investigate the investigation of the investigation of the prior investigation over

its investigation of the first investigation to investigate the prior investigation of her email server.

Edit: And I dare you to try an say that five times fast!!! lol

[nolabels]

6. I was looking into these investigations once, but it seemed like they became so monotonous..........

that i just had to just give it up and go back to work

[RexCasual]

7. A few Points. . .

“He should be here. When you are served a subpoena by the United States Congress, that is not optional,” he said. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) suggested that contempt of Congress could be an option for the committee.

Ummm, exercising your 5th Amendment Rights is completely constitutional.

Furthermore, it is plainly obvious that these "investigations" are nothing but disgusting partisan witch hunts trying to find anything republicans can use to discredit Hilary Clinton before the election.

Imo, Congress is in contempt of the American People.

Deplorable

[displacedtexan]

8. I knew some of the Clinto white house aides when I lived in DC.

They all had legal bills way over $100K each because of that witch hunt, and not one of them knew anything about the president's sex life. Pleading the fifth is the wisest course of action. Even if you have an "immunity deal," legal representation is super expensive in DC.

Republicans ARE deplorable. The lot of them.

[marshall]

11. I hope they got recompensed in some way

Loyalty should be rewarded.

[William769]

9. I'd tell him to take that subpoena & shove it up your ass Congressman.

[dicksmc3]

10. Tweety Bird Rovde

If I'm not mistaken didn't Karl Rove refuse to comply with a subpoena in 2008?? I heard he went to Yalta to campaign for McShame.
Funny how this what's good for the goose is good for the gander simply doesn't work when Republicons are involved...

[truthisfreedom]

12. Good. Rub their noses in the fact that they're nobodies.

Fucking little turd congressrats.