DOJ grants immunity to ex-Clinton staffer who set up email server

[Tiberius]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/02/politics/h...index.html

Bryan Pagliano, a former Clinton staffer who helped set up her private email server, has accepted an immunity offer from the FBI and the Justice Department to provide an interview to investigators, a U.S. law enforcement official told CNN Wednesday.

This is potentially big news. If the FBI have offered immunity to this guy, they likely suspect there was criminal activity involving the server. Not so good news for Clinton.

[Angrboda]

They likely suspect, or perhaps they're just fishing.

[vorlon13]

How is actual secret stuff on her actual rule violating server actually 'fishing' ?

[brewer]

I'm confused. Why would a person setting up an email server need immunity? Is there something illegal in the act itself? Or is it that he may have set up the server with fore knowledge that Clinton would be sending/receiving classified email that should have been on the government server?

[Tiberius]

I'm confused. Why would a person setting up an email server need immunity? Is there something illegal in the act itself? Or is it that he may have set up the server with fore knowledge that Clinton would be sending/receiving classified email that should have been on the government server?

As far as I'm aware, the FBI have been wanting to speak to him since September 2015 over the email server. He has pleaded the 5th every time they asked him to talk, which suggests to me that he knows something that might incriminate himself; perhaps that Clinton told him the server might contain classified information. Or perhaps he just didn't want to talk to the FBI; nobody knows.

In any case, now that he has immunity he can talk to them freely. Also, I imagine that his services didn't stop at the setting up of the email server; he likely kept it updated, which meant that he would have had almost constant access to it and its contents.

[vorlon13]

Or he knows nothing and has zero faith in the criminal justice system to recognize that and/or Hillary's ability to throw him under the bus, regardless of his innocence, in order to save herself.


System is broken, can't blame some 'little person' (FLOABT) for trying to protect himself.