How convenient.
Via Daily Caller:
The State Department says it cannot find copies or backups of emails from the account of Bryan Pagliano, the State Department IT staffer who was paid by Hillary Clinton to maintain her private email server while she served as secretary of state.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley revealed the finding in a letter sent Friday to Sec. of State John Kerry which was obtained by Politico.
Grassley has considered granting immunity to Pagliano, who invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during testimony in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi in September.
But the Iowa Republican first wanted to view the former Clinton campaign staffer’s State Department emails to see if they shed light on Clinton’s email system. Pagliano was hired by the State Department in May 2009 after serving on Clinton’s presidential campaign. Clinton has said that she paid Pagliano out of her own pocket to manage her server, which contained more than 1,000 now-classified emails.