Bryan Pagliano defied a congressional subpoena and didn’t attend a hearing Tuesday morning. Mr. Pagliano, who worked as an IT specialist for Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 campaign and set up the private server in her New. “When you are server a subpoena from the United States Congress, that is not optional and he is not here today”.
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The latest call for Pagliano to testify furthered “no legislative objective and is a transparent effort to publicly harass and humiliate” him “for unvarnished political purposes”, Pagliano’s lawyers wrote in a letter to the committee’s chairman, Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah. Two other witnesses who were subpoenaed did appear but continued to plead their Fifth Amendment right to not testify, further frustrating Chaffetz and other GOP lawmakers trying to get to the bottom of Clinton’s email.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, called the hearing to examine the preservation of State Department records in its on-going efforts to investigate the former secretary of state’s use of a private server.
Herring said Comey went beyond traditional protocol by making information about the Clinton investigation public as well as giving Congress additional classified material. Chaffetz said Cooper purchased the first server used by Clinton and registered the clintonemail.com domain name.
He issued the subpoena to Jason Herring, the acting assistant director for congressional affairs.
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Chaffetz called Clinton’s use of the private email server, her destruction of more than 30,000 emails she considered to be private and her handling of classified, national security material in the emails “an absolute mess.one of the biggest breaches of security in the history of the State Department”. “They happened with some limited frequency over the period of I’d say the last two and a half years while she was in office, but we had developed systems to tamper these down”. Cooper told the committee that he thought that “was good practice at the time”. He told lawmakers that he couldn’t say whether any secret information had been purloined by foreign hackers or that USA national security had been compromised.
