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Richard Blumenthal: “You cannot selectively invoke a Fifth Amendment privilege. You can't decide to answer some questions and then decide you…”

On the recordApril 17, 2018
You cannot selectively invoke a Fifth Amendment privilege. You can't decide to answer some questions and then decide you don't want to answer other questions about the same activities involving the same legal culpability.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal emphasizes the impossibility of selectively invoking legal privileges.

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