Reply to post: Re: You live by political correctness/favoritism, you die by the LACK of it

Freed whistleblower Chelsea Manning back in jail for refusing to testify before secret grand jury

jmch Silver badge

Re: You live by political correctness/favoritism, you die by the LACK of it

"yet you can STILL remain silent when you DO finally appear, and "plead the 5th"."

IANAL but my understanding is that since grand jury is not a 'real' court, you are not allowed to 'plead the 5th'. My understanding is that her refusal to testify has nothing to do with incriminating herself, it's a protest against the secrecy of the court.

She COULD go to the court and answer 'I don't know / remember' to everything but that wouldn't work as a protest, and the very fact that we're chatting about it at all shows that she is getting the exposure she wanted for her protest.

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