{"id":180327,"date":"2017-05-22T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/22\/in-news-that-should-surprise-no-one\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T03:24:00","slug":"in-news-that-should-surprise-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/22\/in-news-that-should-surprise-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"In News That Should Surprise No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump NSC chair and current Islamophobic nut job Mike Flynn has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/05\/22\/mike-flynn-takes-the-fifth-refuses-senate-testimony-subpoena\/\">taken the 5<sup>th<\/sup> and will refuse to testify before the Senate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has formally invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in declining a subpoena to appear before a Senate committee.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Flynn\u2019s attorneys cited the constitutional provision in a letter to the Senate Committee on Intelligence in which they declined to provide documents the congressional committee had requested pertaining to his communications with officials of the Russian government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cProducing documents that fall within the subpoena\u2019s broad scope would be a testimonial act, insofar as it would confirm or deny the existence of such documents,\u201d the lawyers\u2019 letter said, according to a copy obtained by the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flynn is demanding immunity, despite the fact that in 2016 he publicly stated that a request of immunity was an admission of guilt.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump NSC chair and current Islamophobic nut job Mike Flynn has taken the 5th and will refuse to testify before the Senate: President Donald Trump\u2019s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has formally invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in declining a subpoena to appear before a Senate committee.Flynn\u2019s attorneys cited the constitutional &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,573,387,374],"class_list":["post-180327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}