Yet another IT official associated with Hillary Clinton’s State Department gave the Fifth Amendment a workout when deposed Monday as part of Judicial Watch’s ongoing suit.
John Bentel, the former director of information resource management in the State Department office that handles information technology for the Office of the Secretary, refused more than 90 times to answer Judicial Watch’s questions, including questions about whether Hillary Clinton “was paying his legal fees, offered him employment, or other financial incentives.”
Clinton State Department IT Official John Bentel Takes Fifth Amendment During Judicial Watch Deposition https://t.co/ikGIVrnVlK
— Judicial Watch ? (@JudicialWatch) October 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/mtnest11/status/790627167994580992
A judge granted Judicial Watch’s request for a deposition citing apparent contractions in Bentel’s sworn testimony before the House Benghazi Committee, where Bentel testified that “he was not aware that Secretary Clinton’s email account was housed on a private server until media reports in 2015. However, several emails indicate Mr. Bentel knew about the private server as early as 2009.”
That’s curious; President Obama also said he didn’t know about her private server until he heard about it on the news, despite the release of emails showing he had corresponded with her using a pseudonym.
Further, an Inspector General’s report from May found that Bentel instructed a staffer who had raised concerns about Clinton’s server “never to speak of the Secretary’s personal email system again.”
why are there so many pleading the 5th or getting immunity if what hillary did was not illegal #DrainTheSwamp in DC
— curly bill (@1curlybill) October 24, 2016
If nothing illegal happened, why are they all taking the fifth?
— TONY DISIMONE (@DisimoneTony) October 24, 2016
Someone should ask them, but they’d just take the Fifth again. Paul “BleachBit” Combetta, aka StoneTear, took the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee along with his Platte River colleague Bill Thornton, and Bryan Pagliano has stopped responding to Congressional subpoenas — despite all being granted some form of immunity.
anyone connected to @HillaryClinton that is questioned takes the FIFTH. They should lose their jobs. #AmericaFirst
— Lynnette (@lymurp) October 24, 2016
.@JudicialWatch Any government employee refusing to testify and taking the 5th should be fired. While it doesn't prove guilt shows conflict
— Larry Swearingen (@sweengin) October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton herself answered under oath a list of 25 questions from Judicial Watch, although 20 of those answers included the words, “Secretary Clinton does not recall.” Quite a few people, it appears, are counting on her memory of who kept silent during the campaign to be significantly more reliable.
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Tech who wiped Hillary's email archive with BleachBit pleads the Fifth; Bryan Pagliano doesn't show https://t.co/NP0gRj9hPY
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 13, 2016
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