Just in case you thought Hillary would get the e-mail story out of the news… nope.
Oh, Sure, That’s Normal: Hillary’s Server Guy Refuses to Talk to the FBI.
ACTIVATE THE DRUDGE SIREN!
The former aide to Hillary Clinton who helped set up and maintain her private email server has declined to talk to the FBI and the State Department inspector general’s office, as well as a congressional committee, invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, sources familiar with the investigation confirmed to Yahoo News.
The move by Bryan Pagliano, who served on Clinton’s 2008 campaign and later as a technology officer in the State Department, to decline to cooperate in two federal probes considerably raises the stakes in the Clinton email investigation, the sources said. It confronts the Justice Department with a decision about whether to grant him immunity in exchange for his testimony — a move that could be taken only were the department to escalate the probe into a full-scale criminal investigation, the sources said.
Pagliano’s decision this week to decline to testify before a congressional committee investigating the death of the U.S. ambassador in Benghazi was first reported Wednesday night by the Washington Post. But Pagliano’s earlier rebuffs to federal investigators, including the FBI, have not been previously reported.
How does Hillary spin this one? “I’m sure he didn’t want to cooperate with those right-wing partisan nut-cases… at the… FBI… and State Department Inspector General’s office.”
For what it’s worth, the guy has a really good reason to plead the Fifth. As the lowest man on the totem pole, he’s the guy most likely to get thrown under the bus. It’s easy to imagine Hillary claiming that her IT staffer assured her the server was completely secure, that he had obtained all of the proper clearances, that everything was in compliance with the law, etcetera. She’s just a sweet old grandma, she can’t be expected to know how these newfangled doohickeys work!
“It says, ‘press any key’ … Where’s the ‘any’ key?”






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