Since there is little reason to continue watching the coronation and as we await the next release of DNC election emails from Wikileaks, courtesy of the Russian Cyber News Network, here's something to keep you occupied for a few minutes!

The Missing Man at the Center of Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

Of all the characters in the political drama of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, none has been more mysterious—and potentially more important—than a 40-year-old technology specialist named Bryan Pagliano.

Pagliano didn’t just set up the now infamous “homebrew” server in the basement of Clinton’s New York home, which she used for official business while serving as secretary of state. Pagliano has been the former secretary’s go-to IT guy for the past several years. He’s also the only person in the entire investigation of Clinton’s email who got an immunity deal, protecting him from possible criminal prosecution. That was Pagliano’s demand for telling FBI investigators about Clinton’s unorthodox system—a system that he apparently knows more about than anyone else.

Yes, I know this is from The Daily Beast, but where can you find news these days? Sure can't find any from the MSM sites. This article is the most in depth piece written to date on Bryan Pagliano. It literally leaves no stone unturned and the longer term implications for Hillary Clinton will be interesting to watch as they unfold.

It paid off. After speaking to him last December, FBI investigators trying to reconstruct Clinton’s system—and determine whether it broke any laws—had a better sense of its complexity. As it turns out, there was more than one server, and Clinton used multiple devices. When the email story broke last year, Clinton said she used a private server for “convenience,” so that she wouldn’t have to carry different devices for her personal and private accounts.

I've followed the Hillary Clinton email and scandal server with passion and have read everything I can find. I've always contended that Bryan Pagliano has all details and the FBI felt that way too. After all, they gave him immunity! When that happened, I truly believed that Hillary was guilty. The FBI agreed! I thought for certain she would be indicted. The FBI disagreed with me! But she isn't out of the woods yet.

As Clinton prepares to accept her party’s nomination for president in Philadelphia this week, the email scandal still haunts her. She’s the subject of two congressional investigations. The State Department is conducting an internal inquiry into how Clinton and her aides handled classified information. And a federal judge in Washington is weighing whether Clinton should be deposed under oath by a conservative watchdog group that has been one of the Clinton family’s tireless political foes.

It was at that moment, that it became clear to me why Bryan Pagliano was given immunity. I had suspected it prior to the FBI giving Hillary a pass, but after that travesty of justice, I was certain. Bryan Pagliano was given immunity because they wanted to keep him quiet and immunity gave him a reason to repeatedly claim the 5th. To date, he has not given testimony or spoken a word to the press. That may well change in the future.

But Pagliano has remained almost entirely silent in the face of his inquisitors. He has rebuffed congressional requests. When he was ordered to give a deposition to the conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, he declined to answer every question posed to him, invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself 125 times. The only statement he has given on the record was to the FBI, which has never released a transcript of the interview.

There has not been a great deal written about Pagliano's position at the State Department. He was pulling a salary of $140,000 a year but apparently people at the State Department didn't know what he did.

What exactly Pagliano did at the department, however, wasn’t clear to his bosses. And later, they would question whether his employment arrangement was above board. That’s because while earning that hefty salary as a State Department employee, Pagliano was also being paid to perform “technology services for the Clinton family,” Hillary Clinton’s lawyer told the State Department inspector general (PDF), which issued a blistering report in May on Clinton’s unorthodox use of a private email server—the one Pagliano installed and maintained for her while she was the secretary.

I'm not certain, but I think I'm seeing a pattern here. Pagliano gets hired by Clinton at DOS while he works for Clinton on her email server. Huma Abedin has a nice job at State while working for the Clinton Foundation. There is a pattern! Anyone need a job on a nuclear committee? But I degress.

One of things that has always bothered me is where are the emails to and from Bryan Pagliano? The RNC has wanted those emails and filed a FOIA lawsuit to obtain them. The state department originally said there aren't any. Then one was found wishing Clinton a Happy Birthday. Then the State Department said yes there are potentially thousands but it will take us approximately 104 years to find and release them. No, I'm not making this up!

In searching for emails like that, the State Department told a federal judge that it came up with approximately 392,000 documents totaling about 627,200 pages that were “potentially responsive” to the RNC’s request. So massive was the record, the department claimed, it would take 104 years to go through it and determine which emails were really ones to or from Pagliano.

Of course, the RNC didn't buy that story and kept pushing.

But then, just this month, State came back with new information. Somehow, it had managed to narrow down that giant universe of emails to just 1,300 that were either to or from Pagliano or “cc’d” to him. The department was now confident that it could locate Pagliano’s emails and turn them over to the RNC.

It looks like we are eventually going to see some of those emails and I'm sure some of those are likely to open another can of worms for the Queen. The RNC inquiries continue and they are now using the word "cover up".

I'm still in a state of disbelief that the DNC was foolish enough to select Hillary as their nominee. The investigations, the accusations, the innuendo and the hearings are going to follow her all the way to election day and if by some miracle she prevails there, will follow all the way into her presidency.

This is a very long article. There is so much more, but I'm pushing fair use as it is. I urge anyone who is interested in Bryan Pagliano to read the whole article. We'll be hearing a lot more about him in the future!