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In reply to the discussion: Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server [View all]Qutzupalotl
(14,340 posts)194. The 5th Amendment protects against self-incrimination.
Without some offense, you don't have grounds to use that as an excuse not to testify. But that can include perjury as a result of giving contradictory statements.
Reading between the lines, it appears they have Pagliano on something, perhaps only a technicality, but a violation of the letter of the law. Investigators can use the threat of prosecution to compel his testimony, presumably to fry a bigger fish.
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Justice Dept. grants immunity to staffer who set up Clinton email server [View all]
Calista241
Mar 2016
OP
ruh-roh. This is very bad for her. It means they have stuff and they're going forward.
roguevalley
Mar 2016
#84
tell that to the FBI and the others. Your horse laughing will be for nothing when it happens.
roguevalley
Mar 2016
#161
the big fish always fry, not the big ones. apparently, the notion some have put forward
roguevalley
Mar 2016
#85
Ah, you have it backwards. He did not generate the information on the server that is a problem.
Yo_Mama
Mar 2016
#45
I do not rule out the possibility that our choices come Nov as being Biden vs. Romney. eom
Purveyor
Mar 2016
#10
Yes. And he requested fifth protection when Congress wanted to talk to him, too.
morningfog
Mar 2016
#30
Turn down the lights and lower the shades Katy, this party is just getting started... eom
Purveyor
Mar 2016
#8
What General Petraeus did was far worse and he got $100,000 fine and probation
Hawaii Hiker
Mar 2016
#19
Negotiations are obviously reserved for the elite political and money classes
blackspade
Mar 2016
#21
Presidential candidates have admitted to violating the law and were elected anyway. Would an
PoliticAverse
Mar 2016
#37
If she pleads a mini misdemeanor she can't win the general. She must fight. nt
thereismore
Mar 2016
#48
I don't see much coming of it. It will only distract from the important issues Bernie is raising.
jalan48
Mar 2016
#24
Oh it could be serious but for who that is the question which is why they are investigating.
cstanleytech
Mar 2016
#90
The immunity granted to that lawyer who asked improper questions to civil service hires
merrily
Mar 2016
#112
Yes. Thanks. Her testimony was very guarded, either beause she did not want to look bad and/or
merrily
Mar 2016
#117
They'd be getting answers to questions like "who told you to". "who authorized you to",
PoliticAverse
Mar 2016
#113
"Pearlman managed controversial Clinton’s email server administrator Bryan Pagliano"...
ConsiderThis_2016
Mar 2016
#44
But Pagliano was paid separately and privately by Clinton or the Foundation to set up
Yo_Mama
Mar 2016
#60
That is really the most important takeaway of Pagliano's immunity. A serious investigation
Yo_Mama
Mar 2016
#96
Isn't this what those who are ethically challenged do to subvert the public records law?
haikugal
Mar 2016
#110
I don't understand. Paid by the State Department and the Clinton Foundation?
Paper Roses
Mar 2016
#144
No, not in this case. But multiple State Dept staffers were on the payroll of both.
Yo_Mama
Mar 2016
#149
Boom! Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton Should Be Going to Prison For What She's Done
BigBearJohn
Mar 2016
#70
No, it's about her usage of a private email account for official state dept communications.
Calista241
Mar 2016
#126
Should we read anything in to the timing of this announcement? The day AFTER Super
FailureToCommunicate
Mar 2016
#91
the emails released by state are the emails that Clinton's team determined were work-related and
magical thyme
Mar 2016
#139
Of course it is. That's why 100+ FBI agents are wasting their time working on it.
Vinca
Mar 2016
#137
Exactly, and detractors will make a big deal out of it until it's over. Then, they will move to the
Hoyt
Mar 2016
#160
The Democraticunderground would react correctly to a Ted Cruz investigation
GreydeeThos
Mar 2016
#175
Well, at least this latest news about her private server isn't labelled "top secret".
Major Hogwash
Mar 2016
#135
... and this is what we would have to look forward to, nonstop, if she won POTUS.
Myrina
Mar 2016
#159