I don’t have any problem with reading something into a person’s refusal to testify in his own trial.
What I have trouble with is the warning “anything you say can and will be used against you.” It’s the WILL part that is chilling. It sounds like they’re saying, “who cares about truth, we’re going to try to twist everything you say.”
Most of my commanders and I in the military would always tell our young troops to say nothing to CID. CID has a problem of some really over-the-top agents. They seemed to be breathing, talking examples of the “we’re gonna twist what you say...”
Well, duh--it's not "like" they're saying that, they are saying that.
What is the CID?