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Originally Posted by shiraz9944
You guys realize a congressional subpoena means nothing right? There is no enforcement of being in contempt of congress........that has been used in the past 80 years. Eric Holder was held in contempt of congress in 2012, lois lerner in 2014, Susan Rice took the fifth just this year as the very same NSA position FLynn had. He will never be compelled to hand over anything, nothing will every come from it and no one can make him talk or even show up to a congressional hearing. It's dead now, he's not going, he won't talk, he won't show any documents and nothing can be done to make him. The issue is over, dead and done unless another person who has insider information comes forward with actual facts, documents, recordings etc.........that's why congress is so frustrated all the time, they have ZERO power to compel the executive branch to do anything except a full on impeachment and that requires a TON of evidence that they can't compel in the first place LOL. Ever wondered why it's never happened before? You guys surprise me, I thought you were all smarter than this, but I was wrong. Trump is running circles around every one like you right now, laughing every night before he goes to sleep as POTUS and nothing can be done to remove him and nothing will be done. I'll get flamed with fake nic or you don't know shit alt right fucker etc etc etc...........but that won't change the fact that he'll be president a year from now and you'll still be on the board bitching about it. All while the real people who know anything just shake their head in shame of the complete lack of intelligence it appears our industry has...........if you take the board as a sample of this industry's overall intelligence.
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He can choose not to testify and likely wouldn't get in in much trouble from that, but if they request documents, he has to turn them over or risk going to jail.
From the Washington Post:
“Congressional action is analogous to what you see in a criminal context,” Bussert said. “What you often see is the U.S. attorney’s office or law enforcement agencies working with the U.S. attorney’s office coming in and gathering documents from a company or an individual. They may have valid Fifth Amendment claims — they couldn’t be compelled to speak to agents or what have you — but they can’t refuse to comply with the subpoena for documents. You have to produce those — even though those may be incriminating.”
Put another way, the Fifth Amendment protects you from making incriminatory comments about yourself — but it doesn’t protect you from things you’ve said in the past. Documents are similarly a form of past behavior to which the Fifth Amendment doesn’t apply.