More From The Pesky Email Scandal

[Kathianne]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...artment-216679

<header style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">State Department can't find emails of top Clinton IT staffer

The FBI has taken possession of Bryan Pagliano's computer system.
</header><footer class="meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">By Rachael Bade
<time datetime="2015-12-11T04:35-0500" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12/11/15 04:35 PM EST</time>
Updated <time datetime="2015-12-11T07:27-0500" style="box-sizing: border-box;">12/11/15 07:27 PM EST</time>
</footer>

The State Department has told Senate investigators it cannot find backup copies of emails sent by Bryan Pagliano, the top Hillary Clinton IT staffer who maintained her email server but has asserted his Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions on the matter.



State officials told the Senate Judiciary Committee in a recent closed-door meeting that they could not locate what’s known as a “.pst file” for Pagliano’s work during Clinton’s tenure, which would have included copies of the tech expert’s emails, according to a letter Chairman Chuck Grassley sent to Secretary of State John Kerry that was obtained by POLITICO.




The department also told the committee the FBI has taken possession of Pagliano’s government computer system, where traces of the messages are most likely to be found, according to the letter. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has been considering whether to grant Pagliano immunity in exchange for testimony on who approved Clinton's private email setup and whether anyone raised any objections to the system. The controversy over her decision to bypass a government email address, which would have made her messages easier for reporters and the public to obtain, has dogged the presidential hopeful for much of the year, though it has subsided in recent weeks.


Pagliano — who worked for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, then followed her to the State Department — has refused to discuss Clinton's email arrangement or his role in it, invoking his right against self-incrimination before the House Benghazi Committee earlier this fall.

...
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...#ixzz3u86jnc1Y

The last bolded bit appears to be an admission of possible conspiracy?

[Russ]

This stinks of either gross incompetence or incredible corruption at the State Department. And even though I think Hillary and her IT stooge are both gross and incompetent, I'm leaning toward the corruption.

[Elessar]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...artment-216679



The last bolded bit appears to be an admission of possible conspiracy?

Conspiracy or compliance.