“On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question”
“On the advice of counsel, I invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question”
3…
We can’t reform the system or we might end up with death panels.
Wow, crazy how we just found $175 billion between the couch cushions like that for this vanity project.
Say, maybe we could use some of that money to feed the homele- hey, where’d it all go?
Uhh uhh what I mean to say is, maybe we should use it to feed the homeless hot lead. Oh hey, it’s back all of a sudden!
Also, the magic words are important because once you answer you can be forced to answer follow up questions to clarify any answer you provide, and what counts as a follow up question is subject to interpretation.
“How did you receive the manifesto?”
“I don’t recall.”
“When you say you don’t recall, does that mean it’s possible you received it via email?”
“I don’t recall.”
“So you’re saying that to the best of your knowledge, it’s possible that there’s a record in your inbox. Judge, can you make him turn over his email account?”
Bit of a stretch and IANAL but there’s a reason when you see someone stonewalling they’ll say the same line even to simple questions like, “What’s your name?”
I guess all of that is moot if they ship him off to El Salvador or award him with the CIA Award for Excellence in Journalism, but those are the rules they’re supposed to play by.