--- ---  # Clinton Ex-Staffer to Plead Fifth on Emails in Congressional Probe by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 3, 2015 1:54 PM UTC  Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, on Aug. 27, 2015. Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on the campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, on Aug. 27, 2015.David Richard—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Sep 3, 2015 1:54 PM UTC A former Hillary Clinton staffer who helped set up the former secretary of state’s private email server has vowed to invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions after a congressional committee subpoenaed him, [MSNBC confirmed ](http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-email-staffer-subpoenaed-plans-plead-the-fifth)late Wednesday. Bryan Pagliano, who worked for Clinton during her 2008 presidential campaign and at the State Department, has been identified in digital records as the person who set up her email server in 2009. The House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is investigating Clinton’s emails, subpoenaed Pagliano last month to testify. But his lawyer said Monday that the IT specialist would refuse to answer … [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton/former-hillary-clinton-email-staffer-subpoenaed-plans-plead-fifth-n420711?cid=par-time-article%5F20150903) Hillary Clinton Ex-Staffer Bryan Pagliano to Plead Fifth ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4021318/hillary-clinton-staffer-fifth-benghazi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4021318/hillary-clinton-staffer-fifth-benghazi/"},"headline":"Clinton Ex-Staffer to Plead Fifth on Emails in Congressional Probe","datePublished":"2015-09-03T13:54:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:40:08.425Z","description":"Bryan Pagliano set up Hillary Clinton's email server in 2009","url":"https://time.com/4021318/hillary-clinton-staffer-fifth-benghazi/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cf2c16ad26ec05b/69886223428a9e278cccef00/hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2cf2c16ad26ec05b/69886223428a9e278cccef00/hillary-clinton.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","caption":"Hillary Rodham Clinton","creditText":"David Richard—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4021318/hillary-clinton-staffer-fifth-benghazi/","name":"Clinton Ex-Staffer to Plead Fifth on Emails in Congressional Probe"}}]}] ```