MORE ON "THE FIFTH" – AT 11:18 A.M. ET:  We started this subject in our "Short Takes" last night.  It could turn out to be a very big story – one of Hillary's aides taking the Fifth.  From Fox: 

A former aide to Hillary Clinton who helped set up her private email server has told at least three congressional committees that he will invoke the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying against his former boss, Fox News has confirmed.

Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before helping install the so-called "homebrew" server system in her Chappaqua, N.Y. home, was asked to testify about the server by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

"Mr. Pagliano’s legal counsel told the committee yesterday that he would plead the 5th to any and all questions if he were compelled to testify," a spokesperson for Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox late Wednesday.

A letter from Pagliano's attorney Mark MacDougall explaining his client's decision cited the ongoing FBI investigation into whether classified national security information was mishandled when it passed through Clinton's server.

"While we understand that Mr. Pagliano’s response to this subpoena may be controversial in the current political environment, we hope that the members of the Select Committee will respect our client’s right to invoke the protections of the Constitution," MacDougall wrote.

COMMENT:  In political terms, Republicans couldn't ask for a better development.  MacDougall's reply essentially confirms that there is possible criminality here, not the news that the Hillary camp wanted to hear.  I'd love to see what the late-night comedians say about this.

Even though Pagliano has now said that he'd plead the Fifth, he should still be compelled to testify, just to put his plea on the record, before the public. 

Hillary's problems may just be starting.

September 3, 2015