Posted on 05/22/2013 2:12:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How do you invoke the protection against self-incrimination if you “didn’t do anything wrong”? What’s to incriminate?
What did the President know and when did he know it?
Welcome to the Encore Presentation of “On the advice of my legal counsel i exert my Fifth amendment right not to answer that, congressman.”
I will like to see this statement uttered about 150-200 times by her. Now THAT is going to be 2014 campaign footage right there.
Cameras, ROLL FILM!!!!!
“The precedents are clear that this is not something you can turn on and turn off,” he told POLITICO. “She made testimony after she was sworn in, asserted her innocence in a number of areas, even answered questions asserting that a document was true … So she gave partial testimony and then tried to revoke that.”…
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The approval of the document was her downfall. Issa was awesome. I believe it was perfectly planned with Jordan and a few others in on it. They rocked today.
“didn’t do anything wrong”?
Following orders.
“What’s to incriminate?”
The POTUS
Excellent!
For being such a savvy, with it, so inside-the-beltway operator, she should have known (as well as her high powered lawyer) that you keep your mouth shut if you plead the Fifth.
Can’t have it both ways, honey.
I realized this as soon as she opened her yap. I am old enough to remember the McCarthy hearings, the Mafia hearings etc. No one said anything but “I’m taking the fifth”. She like so many of the progressives think that they are smarter than the panel. It looks like she outsmarted herself.
Of course this will be reported by the MSM (if reported at all) as her falling prey to a trap set by the evil Republicans who tricked her into this situation.....
We’ll be lucky to hear 5 seconds on the MSM and they will say congress beat up an innocent woman.
The Fifth Amendment assures that a person does not co,fess under duress. It doesn’t mean that you didn’t do anything wrong.
“I Need a do over”
Why did not her Atty interject and stop her, did he not know the law?
This is all fine with me I want answers as well!
There is a cancer on the presidency.
10 to 1 Levin, if he is back from his son’s graduation, rips Issa a new one
on how he handled this matter. And gives high marks to Trey Gowdy.
So if you didn’t do anything wrong, what could you possibly confess?
Day v. Boston Edison Co., 150 F.R.D. 16, 21 (D.Mass. 1993):
(“There is no question but that the privilege against self-incrimination can be waived, not only explicitly but also implicitly by failing to assert it. Thus if a witness who is compelled to testify,does, in fact, testify and during testimony reveals information instead of claiming the privilege,the witness can be said to have waived the privilege as to the information disclosed.")
Lerner made statements prior to invoking 5th Amendment privilege and can be compelled to testify on those statements.
She violates the American peoples’ First Amendment and then hides behind the Fifth Amendment.
HA! HA! Watch Lerner take a sudden vacation!
Of course she did. There would have been repercussions but nobody physically dragged her in.
She will not come back.
Issa rolled over like a good puppy and let her go and ignored the protestations of Rep Trey Gowdy.
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