5 Reactions to Jeff Sessions' Testimony on Trump and Russia

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter
3. Andrew McCarthy
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Andrew C. McCarthy, contributing editor to the National Review and former assistant U.S. attorney, argued in a column published Tuesday that the legal privileges that Sessions invoked during his testimony were valid.

"There are many relationships as to which the law protects the confidentiality of communications: marital, doctor-patient, attorney-client, priest-penitent, and so on. There is also, of course, the privilege against self-incrimination," wrote McCarthy.

"In a trial ... [a] lawyer knows that if the witness is asserting a legitimate legal privilege, the lawyer is not supposed to try to make it look like the witness is obstructing the proceeding."

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McCarthy went on to denounce the line of questioning of Senator Martin Heinrich and others against Sessions as showing how "congressional hearings are theater, not searches for the truth."

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