In one other daring transfer, Maxwell upped the ante about what she is keen to testify about when she faces members of the Home Oversight Committee on August 11, making it clear she needs immunity from additional prosecution.
Her authorized staff despatched the committee’s chair, James Comer, a letter on Tuesday, July 29, saying she’s now open to cooperation “if a good and secure path ahead could be established.”
Maxwell needs the Committee to supply questions upfront, as “Shock questioning could be each inappropriate and unproductive.”
She additionally requested that the questioning happen “after the decision of her Supreme Court docket petition and her forthcoming habeas petition.”
Her authorized staff warned that if these calls for weren’t met, “Maxwell can have no selection however to invoke her Fifth Modification rights” towards self-incrimination.
Whereas Maxwell needs immunity, that is one thing Congress shouldn’t be keen to budge on.
A spokeswoman for the Oversight Committee scoffed after receiving the calls for: “The Oversight Committee will reply to Ms. Maxwell’s lawyer quickly, but it surely is not going to take into account granting congressional immunity for her testimony.”