WASHINGTON (AP) — A former State Department employee who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton set up her private email server said he will assert his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before the House committee on Benghazi.
Attorneys for Brian Pagliano sent the committee a letter Monday saying their client would not testify at a hearing planned for next week. The panel subpoenaed Pagliano last month.
The letter was first reported Wednesday by The Washington Post. The top Democrat on the Benghazi committee, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, confirmed the letter in a memo to fellow Democrats.
Cummings wrote that he is not surprised that Pagliano would wish to take the Fifth given what Cummings calls the “wild and unsubstantiated accusations” against Clinton, the former secretary of state and current Democratic presidential candidate.
The congressional committee was launched to investigate the Obama administration’s response to the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. That probe has widened to include Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. Clinton has dismissed both controversies as “partisan games.”
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The only people this guy should be answering to are the people who are checking out the server (FBI), and from what I have seen, he has been. What the hell does this have to do with Benghazi?
Pretty much the same thing as a blue dress did to Whitewater.
But the blue dress was actual evidence of BC lying. That ended up getting BC impeached. I’m not seeing anything here. This guy is just saying “why the hell should I waste my time testifying on Benghazi”.
This will just feed the Rightwing scandalmongers more meat to push their narrative: “See, Clinton must be guilty - this guy is pleading the 5th!”
Actual evidence of lying about a blowjob, yes, but which had absolutely zero to do with Whitewater.