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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Steve Bannon
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:33:08 -0400
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On 6/7/24 3:30 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <v3vhvo$25r02$2@dont-email.me>,
>   moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/7/2024 4:03 AM, trotsky wrote:
>>> With any luck Bannon and Trump can share a cell together.  This is
>>> today's Republican party.
>>
>> Adjoining tee-times...
> 
> Weird how Bannon gets incarcerated for contempt of Congress for defying
> a congressional subpoena, yet Democrats seem to have blanket immunity
> for contempt of Congress charges.

Not weird at all.  You're leaving out what happened and why.

> Ronald Machen, the former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a seven-page letter this week that he would not bring a criminal case to a grand jury over Lerner’s refusal to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March 2014. The House approved a criminal contempt resolution against Lerner in May 2014, and Machen’s office has been reviewing the issue since then.

> Lerner cited her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself during congressional testimony on March 5, 2014, although then-Oversight Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said she had waived that right by giving an opening statement at a hearing 10 months earlier when she asserted her innocence. Issa wanted her charged by the Justice Department with criminal contempt of Congress for failing to answer questions about her role in the scandal.

She took the fifth.  Issa wanted her charged anyway because she made an 
earlier opening statement.

The DOJ disagreed because Lerner had 5th Amendment protections.
It's so simple, even a Fake Lawyer could understand it.




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