“Pleading the Fifth” has become a kind of pop-culture reference with the rise in popularity of TV cop dramas.
We hear the phrase often in our popular media and we’ve come to believe it’s just something one says when facing down the authorities. However, it really isn’t that common of an event, and it can still be quite surprising when someone uses the phrase in a government hearing…
Especially when that someone is the Attorney General of the United States.
Congress has been looking into the highly questionable, and seemingly illegal payment that the Obama administration recently made to our enemies in Iran. As part of their investigation they’ve called the Attorney General to testify before them about the administration’s attempts to secretly send $1.7 BILLION to Iran. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) sent Lynch a letter with a series of questions about the how the payment was first approved and then delivered. However, in response to their inquiry the Attorney General sent one of her assistants to Congress to relay her message that she would not be saying anything else about the Iran payout.
Rubio and Pompeo responded almost immediately, calling the AG’s reticence to answer to the American people, “unacceptable.”
“It is frankly unacceptable that your department refuses to answer straightforward questions from the people’s elected representatives in Congress about an important national security issue. Your staff failed to address any of our questions, and instead provided a copy of public testimony and a lecture about the sensitivity of information associated with this issue.
As the United States’ chief law enforcement officer, it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries. The actions of your department come at time when Iran continues to hold Americans hostage and unjustly sentence them to prison.”
The Washington Free Beacon reached out to Rep. Pompeo, who was happy to express his disgust with the AG’s decision to stonewall Congress and cover for Obama.
“Who knew that simple questions regarding Attorney General Lynch’s approval of billions of dollars in payments to Iran could be so controversial that she would refuse to answer them? This has become the Obama administration’s coping mechanism for anything related to the Islamic Republic of Iran—hide information, obfuscate details, and deny answers to Congress and the American people… They know this isn’t a sustainable strategy, however, and I trust they will start to take their professional, and moral, obligations seriously.”
However, another Congressional source told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration would likely continue the stonewalling process for as long as possible because there really was no other alternative. The reality behind what happened between the Obama team and Iran is so disgusting that they cannot allow the public to hear the truth before the election.
“Every Obama administration official and department involved in the Iran Deal appear to be running for cover,” the source told the WFB. “Like we feared, the [Iran deal] is turning out to be a disaster and Iran is emboldened in its aggression. Evidently Attorney General Lynch and the Department of Justice have decided ‘refusal to cooperate’ is their best strategy. But this is dangerous and ultimately won’t protect them from anything.”
Just to recap, the Obama administration is mired in a situation that could end up proving to have been completely illegal (paying ransom to a terrorist supporting state in an effort to free captives, among other problems), and when Congress does their job and investigates… the chief law enforcement officer in the country, the Attorney General, takes measures to protect the culprits. Loretta Lynch is supposed to be rooting out criminal behavior and ensuring that our justice system does its job, instead she’s defending the lawbreakers and ensuring that our legal system cannot operate properly.
Sadly, such is life in the Obama era.
@ bernard ross:
U are right on the spot!
A view from the bridge
Comey set to “coronate” Hillary!!!
Did the trio Billy, Laura and Barak set-up a trap for Comey! The idea may have been to have Comey “decide” to set free Hillary under the intense pressure from his superiors (DOJ & WH). He panicked and gave into the trio plot. So neither Barak nor Laura would have been blamed for the outcome!!! Comey conscience may have kicked in, realizing that a « Mafia » will take over the WH and he would have been responsible for the coronation of Hillary!!!!!!! Or internal pressure came to bear on his conscience!!!
That would explain the Billy-Laura meeting on the tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona, a great trick to extract herself from this dirty gangster game!!!
Drain the swamp!
I warned you guys for ten years now that the establishment Republicans were just as corrupt and traitorous as the Democrats. And what I got in return was to be called a commie.
Now everyone knows what the word Globalist means and that the Globalists are the enemy of freedom and are working to institute a totalitarian state by their ownership of the media, their rigging of elections to put in worldwide progressive leftists, their use of cultural Marxism and Islam to destroy existing social defenses and social norms.
Globalism = economic dictatorship by the power elite elite = economic fascism. It’s not the 1 percent or even .1 percent , it’s .00001 to .000001 percent.
Globalists are not capitalists , they are Stalinists, America is run by economic Stalinists.
I predicted all of this. And you ain’t seen nothing yet Everything I said ten years ago is coming true now and finalizes in the next two years.
You lie down with snakes you get bitten and you chose the snakes.
Robocop reflects the wimpy whining confused minds of the people here who have their minds addled by the Lugenpresse.
It’s proof positive of Lynch’s complicity in the Obama Corruption and Treason,
She needs to go to Gitmo, wear orange and be chained to the floor.
The good news for her is that they provide copies of the Koran for the inmates of Gitmo..that and she can be raped by her Muslim friends on a regular basis. That will really go for whatever prison the new Justice Department sends her to.
I expect they have a lot of sexual emergencies there.
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She’s not too smart, because when you work for the mob you never can retire , your retirement package is usually prison or to to be retired by your boss to shut you up.
During her confirmation hearings, Lynch said that as attorney general she would implement Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty for illegal aliens, and the Republicans responded by confirming her. True to her word, she has been a faithful consigliere of the Obama crime family.
So who is to blame for the endemic lawlessness in the federal government? The brazen thugs who infest the executive branch? Or the Chamber of Commerce lobbyists who camouflage themselves as the GOP congressional delegation and who have abandoned all oversight responsibilities in exchange for corporate welfare?
I wonder why Lynch pled the 5th?
Poor Comey, he just realized that when she said she would leave it to him that they were making him the patsy and that he would be left out to dry.