Three Obama People Have Pleaded 'Fifth' - Most Since the Fifties(?)

...When assistant secretary of  the Department of Veterans Affairs' John Podesta told House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa that “It’s a privilege to remain silent, sir' late October, 2013 it market the third time one of Obama's people had gone silent in testimony.
In June, Greg Rosemen, a deputy director at the IRS, refused to talk about his role in awarding contracts worth up to $500 million to a company owned by a friend whose business received veteran set-aside contract status based on a decades-old football injury.
A month earlier, Lois Lerner, former head of the IRS tax exempt division, declined to discuss the IRS scrutinizing nonprofit applications from tea party and other conservative groups.
None of these people  were fired to the best of our knowledge or penalized. Lerner was recently dismissed from any charges after being investigated on alleged email corruption.
 ...It is likely the first time since the  1950s that we've so many Government officials 'Plead the Fifth' .....In the most famous indictment of a high political figure, President Richard Nixon for forced to resign office for erasing 15 minutes of tapes;contrast that to Hillary Clinton today erasing some 60,000 emails and probably getting away scot  free  as she runs as leading Democratic candicate for President. Times have changed...