Clinton Aide Spurns Congress’s Subpoena for Server Testimony

  • Pagliano had been granted immunity in Justice Department probe
  • Two other witnesses from tech firm pled Fifth Amendment rights

Bryan Pagliano, a former U.S. State Department employee, center, walks through the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center after leaving a House Benghazi Committee closed interview on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 10, 2015.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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An aide who helped Hillary Clinton maintain her private e-mail server didn’t show up for a congressional hearing Tuesday despite a subpoena, while two other witnesses who worked for a company hired by the Clintons invoked their Fifth Amendment right not to answer questions.

Bryan Pagliano, a former staffer on Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid who was granted immunity by the Justice Department during a probe of the server, has twice before invoked his Fifth Amendment rights on the matter and didn’t attend the session.