Posted on 05/22/2013 7:09:40 PM PDT by Arthurio
She made a HUGE mistake and I think she’s banking on her legal counsel’s poor representation as a way out of this! Any attorney with a brain knows the law RE: 5th Amendment. She broke her protection today—plain and simple.
She’ll claim poor legal representation (albeit tax payer funded).
Bigger issue is poor questions (except Trey Gowdy). They are not asking (or better said posing) questions correctly to forec answers! Get it right REPUBS!!
I support her ‘right’ to refuse to answer questions.
However, It is a matter of logic and history that if you do, then you are hiding something.
I don’t know whether this woman was complicit, or the center of, or just a convenient scapegoat, but I know she is hiding something.
I have a ‘right’ to be suspicious of people who won’t answer questions in a formal investigation.
I got rights, she got rights, we all got rights. (pending further review)
It may be that here counsel figured out that asking for immunity before testifying further was NECESSARY.
That may be why ISSA mentioned it.
It makes sense than any other answer I have read on this thread so far.
Thank you.
Bet that will be on the cover of the Washington Post tomorrow morning. (/not)
exactly. issa and others should explain to all, that you cannot take the fifth if you have already on record said you broke no laws and did nothing illegal. if you havent broken laws and done nothing illegal, there is nothing you could say that would incriminate yourself.
and then launch into questions, and not permit her to leave the table until she answers questions. no bathroom breaks. no lunch breaks.
for political reasons, yes.
I can’t remember if it was Watergate proceedings, or perhaps just some movie, but I recall seeing people up on the stand testifying, and after a question was asked they would state “I plead the 5th Amendment...”. Another question was asked, and response was the same. So perhaps I’m wrong, but it would seem some questions could get an answer, and others not. (Which may be telling something as well).
I’m reminded of the youtube videos by some lawyer on “Why to never talk to a cop”. The lawyer laid out numerous ways the cop could spin innocent comments from an innocent person into putting their “testimony” into doubt.
You cannot plead the 5th and also plead innocent.
You get one plea.
You are right. If you're not deadly accurate in everything you say to the police, they can hang you.
Which is why from the start you never talk to them. Don't give them a reason for a two hour
coffee break back at the station.
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