Emails with IT Specialist Suggest Hillary Lied Under Oath

A conservative watchdog group Wednesday questioned Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s honesty under oath when she claimed in a deposition that she did not recall communicating with the information technology specialist who set up her private email server.

Judicial Watch released emails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act showing that Clinton communicated with Bryan Pagliano during her tenure as secretary of state.

“These new emails leave little doubt that Hillary Clinton was less than forthright and misled the public when she wrote, under oath, that she ‘couldn’t recall’ communicating with Bryan Pagliano about her email scheme.”

On March 18, 2012, Clinton sent an email with the subject line “Help!” to Pagliano and Justin Cooper, a senior adviser to former President Bill Clinton.

“Once again, I’m having BB trouble,” she wrote, referring to her BlackBerry device. “I am not receiving emails although people are getting ones I send but I get their replies on my IP. I’ve taken out the battery and done what I know to do but with no luck yet any ideas?”

Pagliano responded that he would examine the server.

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“IPhone is not much different from iPad, however in both cases the security landscape is different from the blackberry,” he wrote.

Whatever Pagliano did appeared to have worked, because Clinton emailed later that morning to say, “Thanks again. I’m back in business.”

The exchange followed several test messages that Clinton sent to Pagliano and then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jon Davidson in 2011.

It was part of a batch of thousands of deleted emails that the FBI recovered as part of a now-closed probe into the private server Clinton had set up in the basement of her suburban New York home. A federal judge in April ordered roughly 15,000 emails turned over to Judicial Watch as part of the FOIA suit.

In a written deposition as part of separate litigation, Judicial Watch lawyers asked Clinton to identify “all communications between you and Brian Pagliano concerning or relating to the management, preservation, deletion, or destruction of any emails in your clintonemail.com email account.”

Clinton objected to the question as outside the scope of the judge’s order and the fact that the word “management” was vague. Notwithstanding those objections, the response read: “Secretary Clinton states that she does not recall having communications with Bryan Pagliano concerning or relating to the management, preservation, deletion, or destruction of any emails in her clintonemail.com email account.”

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Twenty separate times in the deposition, Clinton claimed not to recall something.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton suggested that it is not credible that Clinton did not remember communicating with Pagliano.

“These new emails leave little doubt that Hillary Clinton was less than forthright and misled the public when she wrote, under oath, that she ‘couldn’t recall’ communicating with Bryan Pagliano about her email scheme,” he said in a prepared statement. “No wonder Clinton and her agents deleted these emails time and time again. And these smoking-gun emails would never have seen the light of day but for Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuits.”

Representatives of the Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Authorities gave Pagliano immunity as part of its investigation, which ended with no criminal charges.

Judicial Watch questioned Pagliano under oath in June, but he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 125 times to avoid answering questions.