Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Tuesday that the refusal of Hillary Clinton’s IT aide, Bryan Pagliano, to appear before the panel despite a subpoena ordering him to do so warranted a “hashtag” for “things that make you go, ‘Hmm.'”
“It’s our understanding that while Mr. Pagliano worked in the IT department at the State Department for nearly four years, virtually every single email that Mr. Pagliano had has suddenly disappeared,” Chaffetz said.
“There’s something like less than 20 emails,” he added. “This is a guy who worked in the IT department at the State Department. Hashtag: things that make you go, ‘Hmm.'”
Pagliano struck an immunity deal with the FBI in exchange for his cooperation while agents investigated Clinton’s private server network. He declined to produce a copy of that agreement when subpoenaed to do so Tuesday.
Two other IT staffers involved with the maintenance of the server exercised their Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions at the hearing.
