Lawyers for a former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email system have notified a House committee that their client will not testify Tuesday morning, saying that he previously invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination before another Republican-led panel of Congress.
...Pagliano’s lawyers have said that he fully cooperated with the Justice Department investigation under a grant of limited immunity. Pagliano invoked his Fifth Amendment right more than 125 times in a June 6 deposition before lawyers with the conservative group Judicial Watch in a civil public records lawsuit seeking Clinton’s emails.
If I were him, I would do the same. Why put yourself in harms way if you don't have to?Another example of Hillary not being very transparent....What are they hiding?
Another example of Hillary not being very transparent....What are they hiding?
Democrats pushed back fiercely, arguing that the committee is unfairly expecting Pagliano to open himself up to criminal liability, thanks to an outstanding criminal referral from Chaffetz that asks the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia to investigate deletions from the server.
“What we have done is put him under threat of criminal prosecution,” argued Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.). “It puts him in jeopardy coming before this committee while that criminal referral is in existence. He’s an American citizen; I know the Constitution gets in the way of this committee sometimes.”
Good for him.
He won't be their monkey for their overly played circus.
If he did nothing wrong, then he has nothing to hide. If did something wrong, then Clinton should be demanding his head on a pole.
No matter what he gets up there and says he is going to piss off powerful people. If I were him I would probably keep my mouth shut too.
Dood probably doesnt want to have an 'accident' and drive off a bridge into a river somewhere.
Look this is all pretty much played out. We KNOW...
Hillary lied form the beginning about the server.
They lied about the content.
They lied about the clasification.
They lied about its whereabouts.
They lied about its management.
We KNOW democrats exchanged emails in a concerted effort to protect Hillary.
We KNOW the democrats on the committe are invested in blocking the truth.
People say "why is this still going on?" Answer...because they have never gotten the actual answers.
But you know...
"What difference does it make?"
Taking the Fifth IS standing up to Chaffetz's abuse of subpoena power.Then both you and he are cowards. If he knows of wrongdoing and by his silence he protects that wrongdoing, then he is a coward. Courage is standing up to those who abuse power.
Taking the Fifth IS standing up to Chaffetz's abuse of subpoena power.
Good for him.
He won't be their monkey for their overly played circus.
Taking the Fifth IS standing up to Chaffetz's abuse of subpoena power.
They got the answers....it just wasn't the answers they wanted to hear.
That was the worst spin I've seen in ages. Look at this logically:
If he did something wrong, then he's the solution to Clinton's problem with the deleted emails, he'd be thrown under the bus in a NY minute and rightfully so. It would be Clinton's lawyers demanding that he testify to clear her name.
If he didn't do anything wrong, then why is he refusing to testify??
The only other situation would be that he did something wrong and Clinton knows that it not only would put his butt in a sling, but hers as well. Now maybe I missed a possible scenario, so please feel free to offer one (or more) up for discussion...
Seven sub-committee investigations on Benghazi concluded that Clinton didn't do anything wrong, either.
A person doesn't have to do anything wrong to be publically persecuted by congress.
Taking the 5th, after you've been granted immunity is obstruction of justice.
If I were him, I would do the same. Why put yourself in harms way if you don't have to?
He probably did what he was told to do at the time and now realizes that there is nothing to gain and everything to lose by testifying.If he did nothing wrong, then he has nothing to hide. If did something wrong, then Clinton should be demanding his head on a pole.
He is pleading the 5th.You would refuse to appear for a Congressional Subpoena?
That is not a smart move.
He is pleading the 5th.
Put yourself in his position. Would you risk ratting out Hillary Clinton knowing full well that even by doing so there is no guarantee that the evidence you provide won't just slide off her like everything else seems to? Beyond that, what happens if it all backfires and she becomes POTUS, anyway? Think she'll be looking for a little payback?
The guy risks sharing an apartment in Moscow with Edward Snowden. If I were him, I'd plead the 5th, too.
So you have no plausible scenario to offer, just more hyperbole... Too bad, I was hoping that you'd make the effort to actaully have an intelligent discussion. I guess I'll just have to live with the disappointment...
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