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Adm. Poindexter and Lt. Col. North utilized the Fifth Amendment before the congressional committee. This action was their constitutionally guaranteed right, and they had the privilege to use it or to pass it.

But to the millions of TV viewers in and out of this country, would not it have looked better to use this right as a civilian while dressed in civilian clothes rather than in the uniform of our proud and esteemed nation?