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New State Department Documents Reveal Clinton Top Political Operative Pushed For Hire of Pagliano at State Department
Documents Show State Department IT Concerned about Political hire
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5172
WASHINGTON, May 9, 2016 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained Department of State emails showing that top Clinton aide Laura Pena helped push through the political appointment of former Clinton for President IT director Bryan Pagliano to a Schedule C position at the State Department in 2009. The new documents also show the involvement of Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary for Management, in Pagliano's hiring.
The emails show others in the State International Resource Management (IT division) in which Pagliano would work questioned why a political appointee was being placed in the office. And the emails reveal that a political appointee could not even report directly to a superior in the International Resource Management division, raising further questions among Pagliano's supervisors.
Before becoming Clinton's State Department White House liaison, Pena served as the Clinton for President campaign's Director of Hispanic Outreach and Deputy Director of Women's Outreach, leaving that position to become the Deputy Political Director of Clinton's Friends of Hillary PAC. In January 2009, Pena joined Clinton at the State Department where she helped secure the Pagliano's political appointment one month later. While at the State Department, Pagliano allegedly provided tech support for Hillary Clinton's non-State.gov email system.
The new documents were obtained in response to a April 8, 2016, District Court order directing the Department of State to begin producing materials for Judicial Watch in response to a September 3, 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-01441)). The lawsuit was filed after State failed to comply with an August 5, 2015 FOIA request seeking the following:
All records concerning the hiring of Bryan Pagliano;
All time sheets, calendars, or similar records of Bryan Pagliano;
All records of travel to/from Chappaqua, NY. Such records include, but are not limited to, expense reports, reimbursement forms, and travel logs;
All records of Bryan Pagliano concerning, regarding, or relating to the maintenance of former Secretary Clinton's email server. Such records include, but are not limited to, expense reports, reimbursement forms, and maintenance logs; and
All records of communications between Bryan Pagliano and any official, officer, or employee of the Office of the Secretary concerning former Secretary Clinton's email server.
The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the political appointment of Pagliano was expedited after Clinton aide Pena sent an initial email to Patrick Kennedy on February 23, 2009:
