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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 05:22 AM Apr 2016

Clinton IT Staffer Still Refuses to Testify Before Congress

A lawyer for Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department computer staffer who set up Hillary Clinton’s private email server, recently informed Congress that he will not testify before Senate committees investigating Clinton’s email setup.

The Associated Press obtained a letter sent by Mark MacDougall, Pagliano’s lawyer, on March 11 indicating that his client would “respectfully decline” the offers from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee to testify before congressional lawmakers.

Pagliano declined to testify before the committees even after he was granted immunity by the Justice Department and has been cooperating with the FBI in its investigation into Clinton’s email setup.

The former State Department IT staffer asserted his Fifth Amendment right in September in response to a subpoena from the House Select Committee on Benghazi to testify before congressional lawmakers. The Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees had also reached out to Pagliano then to testify.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-computer-staffer-testify-congress-email/

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silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
2. Why does every Clinton scandal always involved the words "contempt, or immunity" anyway?
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:01 AM
Apr 2016

Dear God, really? How many? It's like they are a crime family or something...

 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
5. Bush: My Sweet Dad, a Wonderful Father to Bill Clinton and Me
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:15 AM
Apr 2016

George W. Bush’s face creases into a broad grin and his eyes twinkle at mention of Bill Clinton, the man he calls his “brother from another mother”.

Read more: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/18/bush_my_sweet_daddy_a_wonderful_father_to_bill_clinton_and_me_124685.html#ixzz46vU5ItII

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
8. He was granted immunity for what he's saying to the FBI, not Congress.
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 01:09 PM
Apr 2016

The FBI has granted it.

I don't know his status before Congress, if any.

The article is a bit misleading.

alcina

(602 posts)
6. Judicial immunity isn't worth much
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:18 PM
Apr 2016

What he needs is immunity from retribution by the Clintons. And that's probably not on the table....

Ino

(3,366 posts)
7. Yup...
Tue Apr 26, 2016, 12:40 PM
Apr 2016

He's determined that he has good reason to be more scared of the Clintons than some Congressional committee.

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