Hillary’s IT Guru Again Refuses To Talk To Congress

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Hillary’s IT Guru Again Refuses To Talk To Congress

Posted By Chuck Ross On 4:06 PM 04/22/2016 In | No Comments

Hillary Clinton’s personal IT guru is still refusing to meet with Congress, his attorney recently told the chairmen of two Senate committees.

Last month, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security chairman Ron Johnson asked Mark MacDougall, the attorney for Bryan Pagliano, if his client would be willing to testify about his work on Clinton’s server.

MacDougall said his client would “respectfully decline” the invitation, according to the letter, which was first obtained by the Associated Press.

Pagliano was recently granted immunity by the FBI in exchange for his cooperation in the investigation into Clinton’s server. He was hired at the State Department in May 2009 to set up and maintain Clinton’s email server, which has been found to contain classified information.

Grassley and Johnson, both Republicans, had hoped that Pagliano’s immunity deal meant he would also be willing to talk to Congress. In September, he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a brief meeting with the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

But in the March 11 letter, MacDougall asserted that his client had not waived his Fifth Amendment rights “as a matter of fact or law.”

“With all appropriate respect, whether and when a citizen may assert a constitutional right is not up to your legal staff,” the lawyer wrote. “Whatever agreement Mr. Pagliano may have reached with the Department of Justice in no way constitutes a waiver of his Fifth Amendment rights.”

MacDougall, who works for Akin Gump, a Washington D.C. firm that has close ties to Clinton, also asserted that the media has published inaccurate reports about Pagliano, who had worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

“Much of the media reporting with regard to Mr. Pagliano — that is apparently relied upon by your Committees — is inaccurate and misleading,” he wrote without elaborating.

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By Rudy Takala (@RudyTakala) • 4/22/16 2:03 PM

 An attorney for Bryan Pagliano said that he would "respectfully decline" a request to testify before two Senate committees, according to a letter provided to the Associated Press on Friday. Pagliano received an immunity deal from the Justice Department in early March in exchange for cooperating with the FBI's investigation into the issue.

Pagliano had previously refused to testify based on his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. After the immunity deal was announced, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., demanded that Pagliano testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee, respectively, writing that there was "no longer reasonable cause" to believe his testimony could result in prosecution.

The response from Pagliano's attorney, which was dated March 11, argued otherwise, stating that "whatever agreement Mr. Pagliano may have reached with the Justice Department in no way constitutes a waiver of his Fifth Amendment rights."

Pagliano established the private server in Clinton's home in Chappaqua, N.Y., in 2009, unbeknownst to any of his superiors at the State Department. Clinton, in turned, granted him a political appointment at the department, an usual arrangement for an information technology aide.

The FBI has reportedly been seeking technical information about the server from Pagliano, in addition to physical evidence, such as photographs, that show when and where Clinton used devices in connection with the server.

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