Subpoenaed White House witnesses should do what Lois Lerner did
by Eddie Scarry
November 26, 2019 01:33 PM Now that a federal judge has ruled that White House aides, even legal counsel, must comply with congressional subpoenas, President Trump should look back to his favorite predecessor for guidance on how to proceed.
The Republican-led House investigation into the alleged targeting of conservative groups by the IRS climaxed in May 2013 when Lois Lerner, who had been an agency official, was subpoenaed by Congress to testify. She showed up, gave a brief statement about having committed no wrongdoing, and then pleaded the Fifth.
She took no questions and left Republicans mad over the waste of time.
The House voted thereafter to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress, but the U.S. attorney's office of Washington, D.C., declined to prosecute her, maintaining that she had an absolute right to take the Fifth and that, contrary to what Republicans believed, she did not waive that right simply by offering an opening statement on her innocence.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/subpoenaed-white-house-witnesses-should-do-what-lois-lerner-did
