#ServerGate Gets Serious
Editorial Cartoon by AF "Tony" Branco Hillary's server less emails "Wiped Clean" by Hillary or her techie surrendered to FBI |
You may not recognize Bryan Pagliano. He was the Information Technology director for Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. Pagliano followed Hillary to the State Department, where he worked as a "special projects manager" for the department's chief technology officer.
One of Mr. Pagliano's first special projects was setting up Hillary Clinton's private email server on which she conducted government business in violation of State Department protocols.
House investigators want Mr. Pagliano to testify about what he did, why and who ordered it. But yesterday they were informed through his lawyer that Mr. Pagliano would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if forced to testify before the committee.
So the man at the center of Hillary's use of a private server to handle classified information is refusing to testify because he's afraid he may incriminate himself.
That sounds like big news to me. The Washington Post buried it on page 19.
So, the next move is up to the House. Members of Congress could grant him immunity. Or they could issue a subpoena calling him before the Select Committee on Benghazi and if he refuses to testify, they could cite him for contempt of Congress and put him in jail. I highly recommend that course of action.
This is a serious issue. The FBI's counter-espionage team is now scouring Mrs. Clinton's server for any evidence that it may have been compromised by foreign agents. The fact that this is even necessary shows that she did in fact put national security at risk and questions her competence to be president.
In the meantime, Hillary Clinton should be asked by every reporter, "Are you willing to publicly insist that your close IT aide cooperate with congressional investigators since you claim you have nothing to hide?"
By the way, there are reports today that a hacker claims to have all of Hillary's deleted emails and is offering to sell them for $500,000. If that is true, you can safely assume that the Russians and Chinese have them too.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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