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Type: Legal correspondence / letter
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A letter from attorney Robert K. Kelner to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence responding to a subpoena issued to Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn. The letter invokes the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to decline the production of documents regarding Flynn's communications with Russian officials and the Trump campaign.

Timeline (2 events)

Subpoena dated May 10, 2017
Letter to the Committee dated May 8, 2017

Relationships (3)

Attorney for Michael T. Flynn
Chairman
Vice Chairman

Key Quotes (3)

"Producing documents that fall within the subpoena’s broad scope would be a testimonial act, insofar as it would confirm or deny the existence of such documents."
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"Under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and applicable court precedents, no person is required to offer testimony when he has “reasonable cause to apprehend danger from a direct answer,” even when that person is entirely innocent and has committed no crime."
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"one of the Fifth Amendment’s basic functions . . . is to protect innocent men . . . who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."
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