During her campaign in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Clinton explained what Pagliano’s role was on the server.
The State Division aide answerable for putting in and sustaining Hillary Clinton’s personal server was not being paid by the federal authorities to take action – as an alternative, the Clinton household personally paid the staffer, a marketing campaign official confirmed to CBS Information.
The Washington Post earlier reported the Clintons paid Mr. Pagliano $5,000 for computer services before he joined the State Department, citing an April 2009 financial disclosure form he filed.
Having a personal e-mail account “wasn’t the best choice”, yet “was allowed and it was fully above board”, Clinton said. It also belongs, I think, in the Halls of Fame for hypocrisy and wishful thinking.
Reports emerged Thursday that people who worked around Clinton at the State Department are also pretty sure that her email practices were foolish. “Facts are facts. I would very much urge those who are asked to cooperate to do so”.
Responding to a question on CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina said she doesn’t think Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s answers about her private e-mail server were “plausible”.
“We’ve had some headwinds particularly around the email question”, said Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
In a long and rare interview with NBC news, Clinton, 67, went over well-travelled ground, defending the legality of her decision to use private e-mail, which officials say sometimes was of a classified nature. Clinton finds herself in the crosshairs because she used her personal email server to conduct official business, which can be seen as either just a breach of protocol or a criminal act.
As for the emails, retroactive classification makes it unclear whether or not that information and the email itself was classified when it was sent or when Clinton got the emails. “But I am very confident that by the time this campaign has run its course people will know that what I’ve been saying is accurate and I will have a chance to do that in front of the entire world with the congressional committee hearing”.
In a letter sent by MacDougall on Monday, Pagliano informed the House Select Committee on Benghazi that he would plead the fifth if called to testify about his work on Clinton’s email server setup.
And the senior Democrat on the panel says Jake Sullivan answered every question that was put to him. She also said voters are more concerned about whether they trust someone to fight for their interests as president, and the Democratic candidate suggested she’d have more success on that question. The number of potentially classified emails that passed through her private system is now estimated to be more than 300.
That employee, Bryan Pagliano, was a former Clinton campaign staffer, but continued private employment with Clinton during his time at the State Department.
The special committee was established past year to investigate the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attacks that killed four Americans, including the US ambassador to Libya.