Usually when you grant a suspect immunity, it’s because you want testimony or help in the case against a bigger target. So where was the deal here? What did the FBI actually get from this immunity?
Via Daily Caller:
The Justice Department granted immunity to the computer technician misled federal investigators about his use of a software program called BleachBit to delete backups of Hillary Clinton’s emails, according to a new report.
The technician is Paul Combetta, according to The New York Times. He works for Platte River Networks, the company Clinton hired in 2013 to manage the email system that housed her State Department emails.
Combetta is the second person identified so far to have received immunity in exchange for cooperating with the FBI’s now-closed investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information on her private email server.
Bryan Pagliano, a former Clinton campaign staffer who set up and managed Clinton’s email server while at the State Department, was also granted immunity. The FBI interviewed him on Dec. 22.