Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr (R-NC) said Monday night that he would not rule out holding former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents.
“You’ll just have to wait and watch. [Contempt is] certainly one of the avenues that we could pursue,” Burr told reporters regarding Flynn, according to Politico. “It does us no good to have people insist on pleading the Fifth if you’re out trying to get information. The only thing I can tell you is immunity is off the table.”
Lawyers for Flynn informed the Senate Intelligence Committee that Flynn would invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to comply with a subpoena for documents related to the probe into Russian election meddling.
Burr indicated that he was perplexed by the letter from Flynn’s lawyers.
“All I’ve asked him for is documents. I don’t know how you can plead the Fifth on a document request,” Burr said, per Politico.
Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!
Lock Him Up!
Karma’s a bitch
it comes full circle motherfucker
In prior public speeches, Flynn has said that people who plead the Fifth are guilty. I know you won’t ask him about that, but I hope Democrats on the Committee will.
Are documents, or is evidence in general legally considered a form of testimony that you can refuse to turn over documents as part of pleading the fifth?
I’ve never heard of this strategy and it sounds like nonsense. Is this actually an accepted legal strategy?
In normal times, the person ordered to produce would go to court to quash the order. They don’t plead the Fifth.
It’s called stratergy
…Make shit up as you go along while looking guilty as shit.
This crew makes the Watergate burglars look like brain surgeons