A Justice Department staffer has told a congressional committee that she would plead the Fifth amendment to avoid being contradicted by other testimony and being show-trialed for perjury as was Scooter Libby. At Just-One-Minute this comment was priceless:
I've been working on coming up with just the right phrase for answering perjury-trap questions. The problem with "I do not recall" is that if you do recall, it's perjury. The problem with "I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that it would incriminate me" is that it admits something criminal. So here's my current formulation:
I exercise my 5th Amendment right to refuse to say anything that contradicts what a Democrat wishes is true.
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