Next -the Fifth Amendment ?

[kentuck]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/politics/irs-targeting/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29

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Washington (CNN) -- Republicans on a House committee rejected strenuous Democratic objections in voting Friday that Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner waived her constitutional right against self-incrimination at a prior hearing.

The resolution was the first step in an effort by Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee, to force Lerner to return to answer questions about targeting of conservative groups by the unit she headed.

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Friday's hearing was the first step toward forcing Lerner to appear again. If approved, Issa's resolution would set the stage for requesting her to come back and testify because she had waived her 5th Amendment right in the view of the committee.

"I believe Lois Lerner waived her 5th Amendment privileges," Issa said. "She did so when she voluntarily chose to deliver an opening statement" that included what he described as "four specific denials ....at the core of the committee's investigation into this matter."

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Issa and the Republicans are threatening to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress. They are saying since she made some comments before the Committee, then she is not able to invoke her 5th Amendment right not to incriminate herself. In other words, they want to force her to answer questions or be held in contempt.

[Pholus]

1. Why are you whining so much. The Third Amendment has not been abused at all!

Morning kentuck!

[Warren Stupidity]

2. The fifth has been circumvented by partial immunity for a long time.

Arguably invasive procedures like DNA samples etc., in an honest reading of the 5th, are also compelled testimony.

[kentuck]

3. There you go!