On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:16:21 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

She clearly used
the fifth to avoid answering questions. Whether it would hold up
if Congress chose to pursue it, recall her, force the issue into
court and get a ruling, is the point I brought
up. Because what she did, most constitutional lawyers and case law
say you can't do. You can't give your own self-serving testimony
and then use the fifth to answer questions about what you just said.

I checked and you're wrong. Or at least the way your phrased it
doesn't apply here. Denial of guilt is not testimony, aiui.

In my words, testimony refers to speaking about what one witnessed.
Denial of guilt is about what one didn't witness.

At any rate, the lawyer can say it better than I can.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...8ca_story.html
"Lerner’s lawyer, William W. Taylor, adamantly disagreed with
suggestions that his client had opened herself up to contempt charges.

'The law is clear that a witness does not waive her Fifth Amendment
rights not to testify as to facts by asserting that she is innocent of
the wrongdoing with which she is accused,' Taylor wrote in an e-mail."

It was the chairman of the committee, Issa, I think, who claimed she may
not do what she did, but Issa is not a lawyer and what little law he
thinks he knows comes from the three times he was arrested, for auto
theft, carrying a concealed weapon, and grand theft,

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.