Remember Bryan Pagliano? He’s the State Department IT staffer who helped Hillary Clinton set up her private emails and later invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked to testify about it at a Congressional hearing. Now it turns out the State Department can’t find any of his emails that cover the time in question:
State Department can't find emails of top @HillaryClinton IT staffer https://t.co/DESgAKJErT | Getty pic.twitter.com/sCmugyYbJQ
— POLITICO (@politico) December 11, 2015
From Politico:
The State Department has told Senate investigators it cannot find backup copies of emails sent by Bryan Pagliano, the top Hillary Clinton IT staffer who maintained her email server but has asserted his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions on the matter.
State officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a recent closed-door meeting that they could not locate what’s known as a “.pst file” for Pagliano’s work during Clinton’s tenure, which would have included copies of the tech expert’s emails, according to a letter Chairman Chuck Grassley sent to Secretary of State John Kerry that was obtained by POLITICO.
The FBI does have possession of Paglaino’s State Department computer, so there’s a chance some of the emails might be recovered:
More State Dept email news: IT aide's messages not accessible because FBI has confiscated them, via @rachaelmbade https://t.co/rR5yyRksfo
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 11, 2015
But is anyone shocked at all of this?
Seems totally legit. I'm very reassured they've looked everywhere for them https://t.co/lDRUJtLz0x
— Michele Frost (@michelelfrost) December 11, 2015
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https://twitter.com/israeli101/status/675453744222363653
That's okay, I'm sure there's a secret private server out there somewhere that has them…. / https://t.co/K6yeuCEZjN
— Run, Lift, Repeat (@desertgardens) December 11, 2015
Who. Saw. That. Coming. ? https://t.co/qh6q4XH8FC
— Brian Hoyt (@OhioBrian) December 11, 2015
And in other Clinton-related email news, 1300 emails on Anwar Al-Awlaki have just been discovered:
NEW: State Dept turns up 1300 emails from @hillaryclinton office on Anwar Al-Awlaki, 4 years after #FOIA for them https://t.co/Y9dqKbNFyL
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) December 11, 2015
At this rate, the State Department will turn over Pagliano’s emails sometime before the 2020 Iowa caucus.
Update: See our post on the Al-Awlaki email “discovery” here.
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