Stone Pleads The Fifth To Avoid Testimony Before Sen Judiciary Committee

Stone Pleads The Fifth To Avoid Testimony Before Sen Judiciary Committee

He’s not simply citing the privilege.

He has an underlying argument that should have been mentioned.

He says the committee’s “requests” are “overbroad”:

The requests, as previously stated to staff, are far too overbroad, far too overreaching, far too wide ranging both in their all-embracing list of persons to whom the request could relate with whom Mr. Stone has communicated over the past three years, and the “documents concerning” imprecision of the requests.

And unnecessary:

In the coming weeks, the House Intelligence Committee is intending to make public the transcripts of the testimony it has taken. Presumably that will include Mr. Stone’s testimony and you will soon see that he directly and fully answered all of the questions posed to him.

And he’s also using Comey’s argument:

Previously Mr. Stone requested that if any testimony were to be given by Mr. Stone, it be held in public session. The decision by the House Intelligence Committee to proceed in private lent itself to a number of inaccurate leaks and speculation which disserved both my client and the public interest. Mr. Stone decries secrecy. He will not subject himself to the innuendo of non-public proceedings. Nor will he confirm the existence of, or produce the documents of the request, for the purpose of being used in secret proceedings.

Once the indictment is unsealed …

expect this little birdie to want to chirp ----