Who is telling the truth? | Letters To Editor | mtexpress.com – Idaho Mountain Express and Guide

As our nation continues to absorb the House of Representatives' Jan. 6, 2021 Special Committee hearings, I'm constantly aware of stark contradictions between sworn witness testimony and media-based political rhetoric/commentary.

On one hand is information presented under oathinvolving serious legal jeopardy for lyingto tell "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God," often on national television, and always with enormous personal/professional risk. On the other hand are people who refuse to say anything under oathexcept for "I take the Fifth" (i.e. the Constitution's Fifth Amendment, which affords the right to avoid self-incrimination).

Meanwhile, many in the latter group can't say enoughoften while being paidto audiences, toothless TV interviewers and pliant print outlets (when the risk of perjury doesn't exist).

Should Americans infer anything with respect to this stark difference?

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