Fauci Is Far From the First Person to Plead the Fifth Before Congress

Still, he was far from the first person to plead the Fifth while being questioned by members of Congress. More than a hundred people who testified invoked the Fifth Amendment. McCarthy often called the decisions admissions of guilt — and branded the witnesses as “Fifth Amendment Communists.” Iran-contra affairOliver North, a lieutenant colonel in the Marines, repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment during congressional hearings on the Iran-contra affair in the 1980s. The post Fauci Is Far From the First Person to Plead the Fifth Before Congress appeared first on New York Times.