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In October 2016 the conspiracy-mongering site InfoWars was one of several outlets claiming that Attorney General Loretta Lynch [took] or [pled] the Fifth (Amendment) to avoid testifying with respect to the Obama administration's controversial transfer of money to Iran in settlement of a long-standing Hague Tribunal claim: Such claims referenced two attached letters dated 24 and 28 October 2016, respectively. The first [PDF] was sent from Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik in response to queries issued by Rep. Mike Pompeo and Sen. Marco Rubio about the January 2016 transfer of money to Iran. In his reply, Kadzik essentially said the Department of Justice would not be providing any more information on the matter beyond what had already been offered in documents and hearings: In their 28 October 2016 reply to Kadzik [PDF], the two congressmen framed Kadzik's response as akin to (but not literally) an invocation of Fifth Amendment rights, maintaining that it is outrageous that you would essentially plead the fifth and refuse to respond to inquiries: Pompeo and Rubio accused Lynch's office of essentially pleading the Fifth, but the comment was purely rhetorical. The matter at hand was correspondence between branches of government, not a criminal trial or proceeding involving testimony given under oath, so neither Lynch nor anyone else involved could literally have invoked their Fifth Amendment rights.
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