“Mr. Pagliano has chosen to evade a subpoena duly issued by the committee of the United States House of Representatives”.
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244-a-03-(Representative Jason Chaffetz (CHAY’-fihts), R-Utah, chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Jason Herring, acting assistant Federal Bureau of Investigation director for congressional affairs, during committee hearing)-“see it all”-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz says the Federal Bureau of Investigation needs to hand over all its files”. Cooper said there was “a desire to change her email address because a number of people had received her email address over the course of those activities”. “If anybody is under any illusion that I’m going to let go of this and let it sail off into the sunset they are very ill advised”.
“As there was an increases in the failed login attempts, we made the Secret Service aware and they made some recommendations”, Cooper said.
Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign before setting up a server for her in her NY home in 2009 during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, past year invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions by a House committee investigating the 2012 attacks on USA facilities in Benghazi, Libya.
Pagliano’s lawyers, led by Mark MacDougall, sent a letter to Chaffetz on Monday, saying their client has repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment rights before Congress and doing so again “serves no legislative objective and is a transparent effort to publicly harass and humiliate” the former staffer.
Paul Combetta and Bill Thornton repeatedly invoked their constitutional right not to incriminate themselves during about 10 minutes of questioning while under oath before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In June 2013, after Clinton had left office, the server was moved from her home to a data center in northern New Jersey, where it was maintained by the Platte River Networks.
When the full story is told, it’s entirely possible that Comey’s decision not to recommend prosecution of Clinton will be seen as even more inexplicable than it is now.
The IT specialist who ran Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server ignored a subpoena to testify before Congress Tuesday, leaving GOP lawmakers fuming and threatening retribution. Congressional Republicans have cast Clinton as reckless with USA national security by insisting on using private communications systems at potentially greater risk of being penetrated by Chinese and Russian hackers.
Democrats accused Republicans of mounting a partisan attack on Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Chaffetz abruptly stopped a hearing Monday to serve Jason Herring, FBI acting legislative affairs chief, with a subpoena demanding the full FBI investigative file on the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Congressional Republicans seem to be as fed up with the FBI’s stonewalling and cover up of Hillary Clinton’s illegal actions as the American public.
Oversight Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., criticized Chaffetz for holding another hearing on Clinton’s emails.
Outside IT consultants did appear, but refused to answer anything under the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment.
Tuesday’s hearing marked the the committee’s third in recent days. That session had to be postponed, however, because of a security issue.
FBI agents and federal prosecutors spent almost a year investigating whether Clinton violated laws governing the protection of classified material by using her private email system while serving as the nation’s top diplomat.
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“I want to read the agreement between the Department of Justice and this witness and whether that agreement requires this witness to cooperate with other entities of government – that is commonplace”, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said in a heated exchange between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans have said the documents “did not constitute a complete investigative file”, as numerous records had been substantially blacked out or were missing altogether.
