Hillary staffers getting thrown under the Scooby Van.
Via NY Times:
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that everyone involved in the investigation into her email practices as secretary of state should cooperate and insisted that she was running her campaign with joy even as questions persist around why she conducted government business on a private server.
Responding to reports that Bryan Pagliano, the State Department aide who set up an email system in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in response to a congressional inquiry, Mrs. Clinton told reporters after a rally here: “I would very much urge anybody who is asked to cooperate to do so.”
Without mentioning Mr. Pagliano’s name, Mrs. Clinton gingerly sought to explain why she had paid him with her own money to oversee her server.
She referred to the “personal services” he provided, adding, “During a period of time we continued to need his technical assistance, I think that’s in the public record.”
As for whether she would pay for attorney’s fees for aides pulled into the inquiries by the F.B.I. and a House panel investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Mrs. Clinton said, “I have no idea.”
If Mrs. Clinton sounded terse and, on questions regarding her server, euphemistic, she claimed the monthslong controversy that has sent her popularity to career lows was not bothering her.
“When you run for any office it’s a very challenging experience, some days are better than other days,” she said. “But from my perspective, I really like listening to people, I like getting out and talking and figuring out what’s on people’s minds.”
Hearing from voters and coming up with ways to address their challenges, Mrs. Clinton said, gets her “up in the morning.” She sounded far more upbeat discussing those very issues earlier in the day when she kicked off her “Women for Hillary” campaign in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the women’s rights speech she gave at a United Nations conference in China.