Source: Common Dreams
by Abby Zimet
“Rand [Paul] and other Republicans tried to claim Fauci had no right to take the Fifth because Biden issued him a preemptive pardon that eliminated that privilege, an ongoing debate in some legal circles. What is not debated though Repubs tried to argue otherwise: Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not a confession of guilt, but a foundational right against self-incrimination as long as there exists a valid threat of prosecution. Most pointedly, the Fifth does not represent guilt but ‘the ordinary caution’ of any citizen who is dragged before a hostile panel by a vindictive chairman vowing for years to put him behind bars, and who ‘understands this hearing was never a search for information but a search for a crime – of having stood in public and told a frightened country the truth, while a president lied to it.'” (07/30/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/further/desperately-seeking-scapegoats-2677287389