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all right now let's turn our attention to article 5 which deals with the subject matter of privileges and as you can see it consists of a single rule of Evidence Rule 501 that is the only rule that made it through Congress dealing with the subject matter of a privilege of a witness not to testify Congress and you can understand how they had this problem had a very difficult problem dealing with the subject matter of the spouses privilege attorney-client privilege doctor privilege priest confessor privilege news reporter account privilege identity of informers state secrets trade secrets in the light different philosophies emerged dealing with the subject matter of these privileges which Congress could not resolve and still produced by 1975 the Federal Rules of Evidence consequently Congress opted for a compromise solution which is found in Rule 501 501 indeed is no solution at all 501 simply tells us what body of law to turn to it doesn't solve the problem it tells us where to go to so