[A_perfect_lady]

Any officers who formally accepted Biden’s pardon not only tacitly admitted to their own criminal wrongdoing, according to federal law, but also may have waived their Fifth Amendment right to avoid testimony due to self-incrimination.

Ooo, I think I see a wee loophole. Confess what you did to the American public, or get nailed on perjury charges.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

tacitly admitted to their own criminal wrongdoing, according to federal law

IMHO that is not unambiguously the case. There are differing readings on that score, I believe.

And I’m not at all happy about the implication in respect to J6’ers who copped a plea to escape drastic overcharges. And if indeed there were “J6ers” who simply were in DC on that day, but were tracked down by all those FIBers long after the fact, any charge at all would have been unambiguously an egregious overcharge.

No shame at all, IMHO, pertains to J6ers who were grateful for pardons they received. How many FReepers who didn’t live within easy driving distance of DC can be certain that if it had been easy to do so they wouldn’t have gone to Washington on that day, and been taken up in that dragnet?