Brian Pagliano’s emails have gone missing, the State Department confirmed this week. Is anyone really surprised that the guy Hillary Clinton hired to keep her communications secret also seems to have scrubbed his own?

Back in 2009, Clinton hired Pagliano to set up and maintain that now-infamous home-brew email server. She also had him hired at State — whose bureaucrats were more than a bit befuddled at having the first-ever political appointee in the IT department.

State’s admission was prompted by a Republican National Committee lawsuit seeking Pagliano’s emails. RNC spokesman Raj Shah made the obvious point: “It’s hard to believe that an IT staffer … never sent or received a single work-related email” in four years on the job.

Pagliano started invoking his right against self-incrimination the instant he was asked to testify on Clinton’s email mess. Before leaving State, did he purge his own trail from the department’s servers, to eliminate any possible incriminating evidence?

He may be explaining it all to the FBI: Pagliano has been given immunity in exchange for cooperating fully with the feds’ investigation into Clinton’s mishandling of classified information.

The Clinton campaign has yet to comment on the news. Hey, it takes time to make up even a bad lie for a mess this bad.