Should Government Employees be Allowed the Fifth Amendment Plea?

From The American Thinker Blog:

When a person is in the public service, when that person is compensated by the taxpayer, is it not demanded of the arrangement that there be transparency?

We all know Lois Lerner’s Fifth Amendment plea, and now we are going to learn of Hillary’s State Department’s computer expert doing same. He doesn’t want to tell us, his employer, what he was up to.
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Does the taxpayer, the citizen, not have the inherent right to know what that servant was doing with the powers and appointments of his or her position? Let’s take this to the absurd. Imagine the President, upon being asked a question regarding his use of power, replied, “I don’t want to tell you. I don’t have to tell you.”

If a situation exists where testimony is required by the “public servant” to explain how the powers endowed to him or her, by the people, were indeed executed, should not the person be required to reply or be terminated?

The employee must be accountable to the employer.
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Thomas Lifson adds: There may be legal problems in requiring suspension of a constitutional right as a condition of employment. Perhaps a more viable approach would be the suspension of all pay and benefits, including pension, for government employees who invoke the Fifth.

I like this idea!