In a pleading before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Patrick Cunningham has pled the Fifth Amendment during a deposition hearing. Cunningham was the chief of the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office for Arizona during Operation Fast and Furious. He was excused from the deposition after giving only his name and title.
Guilty until proven innocent? I know that is backward, but when a government official uses the Fifth to evade giving answers about the job he did while working for a legal arm of the US Government, then one cannot help but be amazed at the hubris, as well as wonder about how implicating the information he knows really is. What employees do at work is really the public's work and should be available to all.
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