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Project Gunwalker: Jan 24 Hearing -- Cunningham to Invoke the Fifth

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Posted by Sherry 2012-01-23 14:27|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 offer him immunity if he rolls over on the higher-ups. If he doesn't testify then he's in contempt of court = potential jail time

Posted by Frank G 2012-01-23 15:21|| 2012-01-23 15:21|| Front Page Top

#2 No 'Fifth' in Mexico. Honor extradition. If nothing more than a trade for a cartel boss.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-01-23 15:22|| 2012-01-23 15:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "Could you come to the office and bring your entire career with you?..."

Posted by mojo 2012-01-23 15:32|| 2012-01-23 15:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Have to love how a chief of a criminal division in the US Attorney's Office can invoke the Fifth on a criminal matter, and the MSM ... doesn't really care.

If only he were a Republican...

Posted by Steve White 2012-01-23 15:55|| 2012-01-23 15:55|| Front Page Top

#5 This smells.
However, you'll recall how they got Libby. His memory diverged from somebody else's memory and the feds had some handwritten notes and...the jury was convinced that he couldn't have forgotten what he said and so he was lying when he said he forgot it.
IOW, it was a matter of a finding of how good Libby's memory was.
If you can't get Fitzmas, at least you can prosecute dueling memories.
I'd claim the Fifth if a fed asked me how my day was going.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-01-23 17:09|| 2012-01-23 17:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Richard, I have seen several things on the internet about how careful you have to be when talking to cops (and that goes double for FBI and/or Congress). Even if you are completely innocent. Cops can take anything you say and potentially turn it into evidence against you.

Invoking the Fifth does NOT mean you are guilty, even though a lot of people think that is the case. As the Scooter Libby case shows, all it takes is misremembering something, and suddenly you are looking at hard time.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2012-01-23 19:09|| 2012-01-23 19:09|| Front Page Top

#7 In Cunningham's position I too would plead the Fifth. Wouldn't trust Holder, of course, but wouldn't trust Issa either.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-01-23 20:21|| 2012-01-23 20:21|| Front Page Top

#8 It would not surprise me if Cunningham dangled that 'Fifth' out there to see if there will be an immunity offer. Asclose as he was to the epicenter, he may have gotten a dose of 'conscious' and wants to right the wrongs.
i think he should behiring a car starter and food taster, especially if the immunity offer is made.......

Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-01-23 21:57|| 2012-01-23 21:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Maybe it's a signal that he knows somebody who knows more than he does.

Posted by gorb 2012-01-23 23:53|| 2012-01-23 23:53|| Front Page Top

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