Clinton tech aide plans to take the Fifth at deposition

[NWCorona]

"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. Pagliano’s 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]

1. He's already received immunity from the FBI so who or what is he afraid of?

I wonder...

[NWCorona]

5. He doesn’t want to air out is dirty laundry.

[Press Virginia]

13. If the FBI steps in on his behalf, then you know HRC is in big trouble

probably the rest of the crew too

[tularetom]

15. Well, he's in no legal jeopardy, so he must feel threatened by something

Who would have an interest in shutting him up?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Civil case, that makes sense

[NWCorona]

3. Yup! I can't knock his decision at all.

[Press Virginia]

6. What does he think he could be prosecuted for?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. There has to do with the qustions the other two already got

and that is making his lawyers nervous.

[Press Virginia]

10. Yeah. But the FBI probably already asked these same questions

The JDW scope is much narrower than the FBI investigation where he got immunity

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. I know, but something spooked them

[Press Virginia]

14. Fear of letting HRC know she's going to jail?

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I have no idea but my goodness

for a mere security review people are damned SCARED, as you noted bellow.

[Press Virginia]

4. gosh, what crimes could have been committed in conversations about

setting up a server in his boss' house?

[NWCorona]

7. That's the million dollar question!

Especially considering that's what caused Mills to walk out of the FBI interview then claim attorney client privilege.

[Press Virginia]

11. For a routine security review there are a lot of nervous people

[DVRacer]

9. Can you plead 5th amendment rights if there is no risk of prosecution?

I thought I was told that before any lawyer able to straighten me out?

[drray23]

16. ask any lawyer

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]

18. This would be the plainfff, since this is a civil case

and this is quite narrow in scope, so what the hell spooked him?

[Trust Buster]

19. Washington aides are not millionaires. The guy would be a fool to financially destroy himself

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.