Lev Parnas Attorney Suggests Parnas May Comply With Impeachment Inquiry After All | Talking Points Memo

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Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associate Lev Parnas has hinted at a potential change of heart toward the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1260146
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Fraud Guarantee.

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BREAKING NEWS, November 5, 2019, accused Giuliani associate found dead of a tragic heart attack

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So Parnas can get more info back to Grenade Giuliani & the Criminal Orange Impeachiness…like what Manafort was doing during the Mueller Probe!

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And, of course, what this means is that every other dumbass capo wanna-be is going to be saying “shit, did Lev flip and cop a deal?!? Maybe I better do that!!!”

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Company motto: Nothing is certain except death and fraud.

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Could it be Parnas is the only cur in the entire cabal who understands the First Rule of Holes?

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Single car motor vehicle accident…

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Allergic reaction, sudden onset, no prior history…

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“Parnas and Fruman helped Giuliani look for political dirt in Ukraine until last month…”

(Apologies to Tom Hanks.)

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This is more like a request for the White House and DOJ to be more forthcoming with assistance. Sort of “I appreciate the efforts you have made, but to date they don’t meet my need to continue to live in the manner to which I am accustomed…”

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Maybe, maybe. No evidence that any of them have ever heard of the Second Rule of Holes, though.

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Fell out of a first story window after touching a doorknob?

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I ain’t even bothering to re-write what was already near-perfection…

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Never yet hid your light under a bushel, have you?
That was a good one, BTW.

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? Not familiar with that phrase. And thank you. Pretty much just described what happened to all of those ex-russkie spies who defected to Britain. Shit writes itself.

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That “legally proper” qualification could be covering up a multitude of sins.

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I have no problem with Parnas asserting his 5th Amendment rights. That assertion in response to a well worded question can be quite damning.

I doubt that his Bacon’s Law claim of privilege that “I worked for a guy who worked for the President” is going to cut it. In a lengthy article titled The Executive’s Privilege: Rethinking the President’s Power to Withhold Information the author* asserts “The executive’s privilege is a presidential immunity that is limited to congressional demands for information pursuant to its implied oversight authority. . . . And, as discussed further below, the executive’s privilege does not apply to impeachment inquiries; it is limited to the context of congressional oversight.”

* Jonathan Shaub, formerly served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel and as a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General’s Office

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While spritzing his prized fuschias on the terrace of his 27th floor West Palm Beach condominium, Mr. Parnas plummeted to his death while trying retrieve a solid gold atomizer, according to the lone witness to the event.

“Him spraying flowers. Then drop little bottle and fly over fence,” his neighbor, Chelovek Smerti, told authorities, before leaving on a long-planned vacation to Murmansk.

The investigation is on-going, a spokesman said.

@castor_troy

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It’s from the Gospels–versions in all three of the Synoptics. Longer than I want to type out, but a rough paraphrase is if you have the light you don’t cover it, you put it where it can shine and light your way. That’s bushel as in basket, in King James English.
Now also used to mean that you might not wait for us to notice your brilliance all by ourselves.

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