Posted on 05/22/2013 12:34:42 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Well, eventually...
I didn’t say anything close to that. I said in several posts Gowdy saved this.
Maybe she received advice from that law professor named Obama. I hear he knows how to ‘take the fifth’ when running the country.
That would change everything.
Executive Privilege is used to protect the private counsel that the president receives. Obama is already on record saying that he first learned of this in the news last week.
Asserting executive privilege would be admitting that Obama was involved all the way back to before the election.
-PJ
No doubt...just wish they'd tell Rush to cut the low info and self aggrandizing/media cr@pola.
Good.
When questioning, I hope Issa and the others remember that this statist is in line to administer a significant portion of Obamacare.
SHE will have no problem, lose no sleep, feel no pity in holding YOU to the letter, spirit or intent of the entirty of the law when the positions are reversed.
She’s earned everything Issa and the rest are going to throw at her.
Ha! He couldn't claim he first heard about it in the newspapers, then ;)
I know what you mean.
But every once in a while I become very miopic and see nothing but that carrot in front of me.
It's also my understanding that once a witness takes the stand and makes any statement as to the facts, as LL effectively did via her self-serving screed, that witness becomes legally subject to cross-examination.
And while they may subsequently assert their rights under the 5th at each subsequent question, such assertion does not excuse them until such time as the questioner rests, or they're dismissed via judicial pronouncement.
Now, will Issa apologize to Gowdy for the public smack down?
All politics is theater. I bet that was done on purpose.
But wouldn’t it be delicious irony if Gowdy’s protest was planted by Issa?
You don’t have to explicitly waive it. if you answer a single question or make a single statement other than taking the fifth, you’ve waived it. a trick is to ask multiple questilns and throw one in like, “do you live in texas.” If the person answers, they have waived their right.
I agree with you...razor sharp Gowdy saved bewildered Issa.
She testified as to her own innocence and then (too late) tried to plead the fifth.
You do not get to tell your side of the story and then walk away from questions by pleading the fifth.
I hear ya, lot’s of cause to be cynical....tying to keep up the hope though.
That’s what happened. She read her statement, envoked the 5th and THEN answered Issa’s question about a document.
“Issa flubbed bigtime by not continuing to ask all of the questions, and getting her on record on each of them, one way or the other.”
That was my immediate reaction. Make her sit there and sweat and, as the pundits like to say, capture the optics of her sitting there saying “I will not answer...based on my 5A right against self-incrimination”. I think this leaves an indelible impression that she hiding something very serious.
Really? I missed that somehow. So her lawyer told Issa she would make no statement and then she pops out with one? WTH?
Not the point. She or anyone else can say "I don't recall" just like the Clinton's did. However if she does that she will be damned by the questions asked her if not by her (non) answers.
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