Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

[mike_usa]

This is 100% crappy theory just like death spiral excuse.

As public servants whether political appointees or career bureaucrats, they are judged against higher standards than ordinary people.

Jim Parrot was working as a economic policy adviser and not as a spy agent on secret mission. Probably he may have worked as a covert agent of WS and that is not a national security issue. Economic policies are never a top secret. In fact all economic policies are publicly discussed and public are invited to contribute with questions and concerns.

If it relates to any national security matters, witnesses have the legal rights to refuse to answer those questions.

Taking fifth by a active public servant, always leads to immediate termination or resignation and possible criminal investigations.
Taking fifth by a public servant is never a trivial matter and it is the end of any public or private career.

One can come up with any number of lame excuses, but taking fifth by a public servant is never a cheap defense. One has to look at this as if this was part of larger strategy in which case Judges will draw their own adverse opinion about defendants.

In the court of public opinion, taking fifth is never a innocent defense.

Anonymous on January 26, 2016 at 5:15 pm