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The former State Department IT specialist who set up Hillary Clinton’s private server ignored a subpoena to appear Tuesday before a House committee hearing, while other tech experts who helped maintain the system asserted their Fifth Amendment right not to testify – frustrating Republican lawmakers trying to dig deeper into the former secretary of state’s email setup.

House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said he’ll now consider a “full range of options” to address IT aide Bryan Pagliano’s “failure” to attend.

“He should be here. … It is not optional,” Chaffetz said. “His attendance is required here.”

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Two other officials from Platte River Networks, Bill Thornton and Paul Combetta, did comply with subpoenas to appear. However, when it came time to answer questions, they pleaded the Fifth. The Denver-based technology company maintained Clinton’s server when it was moved from her Chappaqua, New York, home to a data center in northern New Jersey.

Combetta took the Fifth six times and Thornton took the Fifth four times, before both witnesses were excused.

After each question, they recited a variation of the line: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer and assert my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.”

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/...-plead-5th.html

Earlier today I saw video of these two taking the 5th. It reminded me of the Kefauver hearings on the Mafia during the 50s, which is no doubt appropriate. Pagliano refusing to testify and the destruction of Hilliary's emails despite a court order not to do so ought really lead to contempt charges across the board, but we will see. Anything criminal touching the Clintons seems somehow to disappear into the ether.

Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #1

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The former State Department IT specialist who set up Hillary Clinton’s private server ignored a subpoena to appear Tuesday before a House committee hearing, while other tech experts who helped maintain the system asserted their Fifth Amendment right not to testify – frustrating Republican lawmakers trying to dig deeper into the former secretary of state’s email setup.

House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, said he’ll now consider a “full range of options” to address IT aide Bryan Pagliano’s “failure” to attend.

“He should be here. … It is not optional,” Chaffetz said. “His attendance is required here.”

[snip]

Two other officials from Platte River Networks, Bill Thornton and Paul Combetta, did comply with subpoenas to appear. However, when it came time to answer questions, they pleaded the Fifth. The Denver-based technology company maintained Clinton’s server when it was moved from her Chappaqua, New York, home to a data center in northern New Jersey.

Combetta took the Fifth six times and Thornton took the Fifth four times, before both witnesses were excused.

After each question, they recited a variation of the line: “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer and assert my Fifth Amendment constitutional privilege.”

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/...-plead-5th.html

Earlier today I saw video of these two taking the 5th. It reminded me of the Kefauver hearings on the Mafia during the 50s, which is no doubt appropriate. Pagliano refusing to testify and the destruction of Hilliary's emails despite a court order not to do so ought really lead to contempt charges across the board, but we will see. Anything criminal touching the Clintons seems somehow to disappear into the ether.

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Compared to these guys Costello, Moretti et all were choirboys...