Hillary lets Pagliano "Plead the Fifth"

The flags don't make him innocent

Bryan Pagliano is an I.T. expert. He worked as an IT director on Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 campaign and helped set up her private, unsecured, email server that the FBI has put in protective custody in light of the breach of State Department protocol and government regulations. 

A government employee is not allowed to use a private server to send and/or receiving classified information, and in general, only a secure government server is recommended for all business emails. Hillary had only the private server and lied repeatedly about how she used it.

Pagliano says he will invoke his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying against Hillary Clinton, reports Fox News, but the actual purpose of the Fifth Amendment is to allow a man or a woman to not have to testify against him- or herself, not their boss.

The Clinton aide was asked by the House Select Committee on Benghazi to testify about the server, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Mark MacDougall, Mr. Pagliano's attorney, explained in a letter about his client's decision. "While we understand that Mr. Pagliano's response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client's right to invoke the protections of the Constitution," he wrote.

Pagliano was subpoenaed by the Benghazi committee on August 11th and the committee chairman, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) ordered Pagliano appear for questioning on September 10th, and demanded he provide documents related to all servers or computer systems controlled or owned by Mrs. Clinton between 2009 and 2013.

Upon receipt of Rep. Gowdy's demand, Mr. Pagliano summarily wet his pants.

Pagliano was asked to oversee the installation of Clinton's [secret] server to handle her correspondence as secretary of state. He was paid by a political action committee tied to Hillary until April 2009, when hired by the State Department as an IT specialist.

Pagliano left government disservice in February 2013 and now works for a contractor that provides tech services to the State Department. 

"I do what I want"

The Benghazi committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) huffed and puffed that Gowdy subpoenaed Pagliano unilaterally in order to make Hillary look like a lying, incompetent, stale air bagel (see Urban Dictionary). 

However, Ms. Clinton's competence is actually being a lying, incompetent, stale air bagel. 

Although Clinton has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, isn't using a private server to do State Department business, whether classified or not [and if you think not, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you] absolute proof of her incompetence as a high-ranking government official?

What's most revealing about Hillary's character is her ability to allow others to "slow down the bus" with their their bodies before it rolls over hers.

Imagine how the Russians, North Korea and the Chinese are hoping she gets elected president. I even know an Ayatollah who has his bloody fingers crossed.


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