US couple may refuse to testify
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December 10, 2009, Thursday
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THE couple who crashed the White House state dinner for India's prime minister last month plan to invoke their rights to refuse to testify if they are subpoenaed to appear in Congress about the security breach.
Reality TV hopefuls Michaele and Tareq Salahi said through their lawyer on Tuesday that the House Homeland Security Committee has drawn premature conclusions about the November 24 incident.
They were able to somehow get into the state dinner that day without being on an approved guest list.
The committee planned to vote late yesterday to subpoena the couple to testify.
In a letter on Tuesday, the Salahis' lawyer, Stephen Best, gave examples of what he said were the committee's premature conclusions.
Best cited District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's characterization of the Salahis on November 30 as "practiced con artists." "It is circumstances such as these for which the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution was designed to provide safe harbor," Best wrote.
Reality TV hopefuls Michaele and Tareq Salahi said through their lawyer on Tuesday that the House Homeland Security Committee has drawn premature conclusions about the November 24 incident.
They were able to somehow get into the state dinner that day without being on an approved guest list.
The committee planned to vote late yesterday to subpoena the couple to testify.
In a letter on Tuesday, the Salahis' lawyer, Stephen Best, gave examples of what he said were the committee's premature conclusions.
Best cited District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's characterization of the Salahis on November 30 as "practiced con artists." "It is circumstances such as these for which the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution was designed to provide safe harbor," Best wrote.
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