Worker Who Helped Clinton Set Up Email Server To Plead The Fifth

In this Aug. 28, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis. The State Department made public roughly ... In this Aug. 28, 2015 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, addresses the summer meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis. The State Department made public roughly 7,121 pages of Clinton's emails late Monday night, including 125 emails that were censored prior to their release because they contain information now deemed classified. The vast majority concerned mundane matters of daily life at any workplace: phone messages, relays of schedules and forwards of news articles.(AP Photo/Jim Mone) MORE LESS
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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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