It's getting better...
Attorney General Loretta Lynch PLEADS THE FIFTH
I'm just too skeptical here. I think they are distracting from the Wikileaks thing with this, and in a week Comey will say he's taken another close look at it with new evidence and it is even more clear that there is nothing to prosecute. He'll probably get a Supreme Court seat out of this.
How in the hell does the Attorney General of the United States, THE LEAD LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL in the COUNTRY, plead the Fifth Amendment?
LOCK HER UP!!!
DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
How long until Comey mysteriously "commits suicide"?
What the ... ?? Our attorney general is pleading the fifth amendment as to what happened to taxpayer money?
A party may plead the fifth only where the party has a genuine, legitimate belief that what he or she says could lead to possible criminal investigation or criminal charges against the person. Fifth amendment protection "must be confined to instances where the witness has reasonable cause to apprehend danger from a direct answer.... To sustain the privilege, it need only be evident from the implications of the question, in the setting in which it is asked, that a responsive answer to the question or an explanation of why it cannot be answered might be dangerous because injurious disclosure could result.” (Hoffman v. United States (1951) 341 U.S. 479, 486–487, 71 S.Ct. 814, 95 L.Ed. 1118.)
So our attorney general is saying that answering questions about what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money "might be dangerous because injurious danger [to her] could result."
She's a lawyer so I presume she knows that.
OK, "pleading the fifth" is not the same as pleading the fifth. There's a reason they put it in quotes.
Is this another version of "depends on your definition of IS" moment?
Has she literally pleaded the fifth under oath?
I don't know. Has she????
Has she literally pleaded the fifth under oath?
No, she has not.
Hence the reason I was compelled to point out that citing legal rulings about pleading the fifth was not in order.
OK, "pleading the fifth" is not the same as pleading the fifth. There's a reason they put it in quotes.
Hildebeast doesn't plead the fifth, she simply says "I don't remember" so she can't be charged with perjury. She didn't spend all that time in law school for nothing.
But by the same token, is anybody okay with our attorney ******* general refusing to answer questions and assist in an investigation of what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money?