ALL the Secrets: Clinton Aide Wants Immunity Deal Kept Under Wraps
FBI wants a new secret filing in the Hillary email investigation
I think it’s safe to say that cat’s out of the bag.
A former tech aide to Hillary Clinton wants an immunity deal with the Department of Justice kept quiet. The DOJ is currently investigating Hillary’s use of a private email account and home-brewed server while Secretary of State.
Josh Gerstein for Politico:
A lawyer for Bryan Pagliano submitted a sealed motion and exhibits to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Tuesday afternoon, less than two hours before the 5 p.m. deadline Sullivan set for the filing of Pagliano’s immunity agreement.
A legal memorandum filed publicly Tuesday confirms for the first time that Pagliano reached such an immunity agreement, and lays out arguments for why he should still be able to assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a Freedom of Information Act suit a conservative group, Judicial Watch, is pursuing over Clinton’s email set-up.
The document also states that Pagliano has filed a motion to keep his immunity agreement under seal.
The battle over whether to make Pagliano’s immunity agreement public is an unhelpful development for Clinton’s presidential campaign. The discussion over the details of the deal carries implications that someone involved may have committed a crime, although no one has been charged.
As I predicted last year, if there is any hope for finding a chink in Clinton’s armor, it will be via one of her aides. But I digress. Back to the story:
Pagliano was scheduled to be deposed on Monday in the Judicial Watch lawsuit. However, Sullivan postponed the deposition after Pagliano’s lawyers indicated the former tech aide planned to assert his Fifth Amendment right. In the judge’s order delaying the testimony, he ordered Pagliano to file a legal explanation justifying his planned assertion as well as a copy of an immunity agreement under which the former Clinton aide reportedly gave testimony to the FBI about his role in the private server arrangement.
Now, Sullivan will have to decide whether the immunity agreement should be made public or kept under seal. Most court records are available to the public, but judges sometimes put them off limits for privacy reasons or to protect ongoing investigations.
In a new order Tuesday afternoon, Sullivan gave Judicial Watch and government lawyers until Friday at noon to indicate whether they oppose Pagliano’s effort to file his immunity agreement under seal.
The FBI is also trying to keep a new filing in the Clinton case secret:
The FBI has asked a federal judge for permission to file a second secret declaration detailing its probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
In the request, which came as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the Justice Department offered for the FBI to provide “additional details” about how it “conducted a reasonable search for records” as part of the open records case and “determined that there were no records responsive.”
“These details supplement defendant’s showing that it conducted a reasonable search, but cannot be disclosed on the public record without compromising information that the FBI seeks to protect,” the department said in a filing late Monday evening.
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“[T]he FBI is not required to identify a particular federal statute that it alleges has been violated in connection with the pending investigation, or the target(s) of the investigation,” in order to keep the information secret, it asserted.
But hey, at least she’s the first woman presidential nominee, right?
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His testimony would be more important than us needing to see the immunity agreement I would think.
I don’t care if I ever see it as long as he is required to talk.
What Pagliano and any other aide has to say needs to happen sooner rather than later as long as Sidney Blumenthal is out there. Concealment is a powerful motivation for murder. All of the players here know it.
I want to see another Hillary first: Presidential Candidate Indicted/Arrested/Sentenced.
No, the article will not say which party she belongs to in this case.
Even if Obama, Lynch and Hillary, are able to can the FBI investigation, they have much less control over the FOIA case. So Server-gate will be an ongoing headache.
Multiple firsts here: first woman presidential nominee, first former first lady -correction- significant other presidential nominee, first presidential nominee under FBI investigation, and hopefully first presidential nominee to be overwhelmingly defeated and then prosecuted, found guilty and sent to prison! (I can dream can’t I?)
What a crazy year. The majority of the electorate is pissed and the blind Democrat robots keep on doing their thing.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”.
All I want is justice brought down on the Left’s biggest robot. Justice for ALL! No one is above the LAW!
I think it’s safe to say that cat’s out of the bag.
I don’t think we know how much is in that bag. We can certainly speculate, and many have done so. It’s not just State Department malfeasance, destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice; it’s also Clinton Foundation shenanigans and possible racketeering, tax evasion, extortion, espionage, treason.
A lot of people really don’t know the extent of what she’s done or what is being investigated because it is being down played by most of the media. Most of us here are news/political junkies but we are the minority of the population. And we have a corrupt media to go along with our corrupt candidate.
Status quo
Interesting that in the reports it is noted that Pagliano and lawyers made the initial move in December.
Could be Pags realized that the bus had to run over someone and He did not want it to be him.
Could be he is singing like a canary
The irony….. secret and sealed documents being filed in a FOIA case…..
I hope they get him to testify soon, before one of those mysterious “accidents” happen.