WASHINGTON — A veteran aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she discussed Clinton’s private email server with a technical aide who helped set up and run the system, according to a court deposition released Tuesday by a conservative legal group.
Longtime Clinton aide Cheryl Mills acknowledged in five hours of testimony last week that her conversations with the technical aide, Bryan Pagliano, took place after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state in 2013.
Mills, who was Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department and later her private attorney, told lawyers for the legal group Judicial Watch that she spoke to Pagliano several times about the setup of Clinton’s email system. But Mills’ lawyers declined to allow Mills to speak in detail about Pagliano’s work or whether he was working at the time for either Clinton or her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Judicial Watch has sued the State Department for access to public records about Clinton’s use of private emails in her public job.
Pagliano has reportedly cooperated with the FBI in its separate probe of Clinton’s emails but last year refused to testify to a congressional committee about his work on the email server, which was installed in the basement of the Clinton’s home in Chappaqua, N.Y.