House Committee Seeks Contempt Citation Against Clinton Aide
- Bryan Pagliano helped set up Clinton server, defied subpoena
- Democrats say there’s no point since he’s taken the Fifth
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.
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A House committee voted along party lines to recommend that Bryan Pagliano, who helped maintain the private e-mail server that Hillary Clinton used while secretary of state, be found in contempt of Congress.
The 19-15 vote Thursday by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent to the the full House of Representatives a resolution saying that Pagliano has twice defied a subpoena and asking that Speaker Paul Ryan “take all appropriate action to enforce" it.