The officials said a privilege would not provide a blanket protection enabling agents to avoid testifying.

Another potential witness killed himself to avoid testifying; the transcripts include his suicide note.

At the time, many speculated that the former president was trying to avoid testifying.

Did his failure to come forward suggest he might try to avoid testifying?

But the girl then recanted, saying she only wrote the letter to avoid testifying.

And he told her that she might be able to file an affidavit to avoid testifying.

"She told me she was trying to avoid talking and testifying," he said.

However, Jordan Chandler had left the country to avoid testifying.

He housed her mother, Glenda, in his church for 40 days so she could avoid testifying under oath.

He, too, is expected to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights to avoid testifying.