Mensch: Flynn has turned on DT, is talking to the FBI.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. There is a general principle that a waiver of 5th amendment rights in one case

doesn't necessarily carry over to another case. But the 5th amendment applies only to criminal prosecutions, so it would make more sense if he was pleading the 5th as to the FBI and not the Senate. The Senate can't prosecute - their investigation could result in criminal prosecution only if the evidence turned up during that investigation was used by the FBI to prosecute someone. Is he asking the FBI for immunity? Or the Senate panel? In the Iran-Contra matter, Oliver North was given immunity by a congressional panel, and after he was prosecuted and convicted, his conviction was overturned on appeal because the law prohibited the prosecution from using his testimony to the panel as part of the criminal case against him.

So it's complicated.