DUmmie FUnnies 05-23-13 ("IRS - Did Lois Lerner botch 5th Amendment assertion")

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | May 23, 2013 | Dummies and PJ-Comix

[Choose Ye This Day]

I'm no expert, and I don't know if this applies to testifying before Congress as opposed to a criminal trial, but this is interesting:

If you are ever charged with a crime and your case goes to trial, it is important to know that you do not have to testify. In fact, if your testimony would incriminate you in any way, it may be in your best interest to invoke your Fifth Amendment right. Keep in mind, however, that pleading the fifth applies to your entire testimony—this means that you cannot choose to answer some questions and refuse to answer others.

http://www.selfincrimination.org/pleadingthefifth.html

[Chaguito]

Not gonna bite...

[BykrBayb]

Okay, just hope your face doesn’t freeze like that. Have a nice day.

[wjcsux]

Trey Gowdy was absolutely awesome! He is definately the kind of Representative we need! Too bad there isn’t 100 more like him!

[Condor51]

The funny thing to me about Lois - 'I take the 5th, sort of' - Lerner, isn't that she said she was doing it, "on the advise of Counsel". Nope. But that old Lois is the same 'senior Internal Revenue Service official' who said to the media and all the world on May 10, 2013 that...

"I'm not good at Math, I'm a Lawyer."

Which statement was immediately met with much laughter and people falling off chairs and rolling around on the floor. After all any 'senior Internal Revenue Service official' should be able to; add 2+2 and get 4, subtract 5 from 10, what the Cube Root of 9 is, and know the value of pi (π) (two decimal places, min).

But lo and behold now we find that not only isn't she 'good at math', she isn't any good at 'Lawyering' either. So her Counsel's advice aside, any Lawyer knows you can't Testify then invoke the 5th when it's time for 'Cross'. You 'invoke' when you sit down then shut up.