What do people make of the State Dept. email staffer refusing to appear before Congress?

[RBInMaine]

He was apparently granted immunity, but still won't testify. Jesus Christ. Powell, Rice, Jeb Bush all did the same thing. I am SO sick and god damned tired of this NON-STORY right wing email-issue BULLSHIT.

[DesertFlower]

1. so am i. let's get it over with.

[Her Sister]

2. He probably knows it's a witch hunt and not worth the effort

[DemonGoddess]

3. I'd say that as well

Witch hunt, not worth the time.

[GusBob]

4. I think that there is partisanship within the state dept. Remember

Some people have been there for years and are from previous admins.

Witch hunts, back stabs and covering asses works both ways

Some of this has nothing to do with HRC

[BlueCaliDem]

5. A holdover from the Cheney Admin afraid to testify against Powell and Rice?

Depends on who they're calling to Congress.

[Lucinda]

6. This is the first i've heard of it, so I have zero details...

[BlueStateLib]

7. Second State employee refuses GOP questions on Clinton server

John Bentel, a now-retired State employee who managed IT security issues for the top echelon at the department, declined to be interviewed by GOP staff on the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees, according to a letter obtained by POLITICO.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clinton-emails-state-department-220689#ixzz46cWlAS2I
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John Bentel
Director, Information Resources Management, The Executive Secretariat
U.S. Department of State
January 1974 – November 2012 (38 years 11 months)

Director of IT Services for the Executive Secretariat at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC.

[JSup]

8. I think that he...

...doesn't want to talk to a bunch of rabid Tea Party badgers.