Reply #27: I'll pull this sentence out for emphasis:

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Dean: "If they do not, Fred Fielding has it right: Officials are absolutely immune from compelled Congressional testimony."

Ye, Congress shall enforceth the ancient precepts, or this nation shall go under.

In examining the above, especially that linked into the documents available bu clicking at Hinds Principles, the cases can be quite interesting.

After the Sargeant At Arms comes for you, and you are duly imprisoned, are you a prisoner who deserves counsel, or a witness who deserves none? In the past, Congress was such a moral body that they would spend DAYS attempting to answer such questions.