[Perdogg]

Josh Marshall (10:15a.m.): Lerner Must Go talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/… Ezra Klein (9:45a.m.): Heads should roll at IRS washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog…— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) May 22, 2013

[doc]

If you didn’t do anything wrong then why not testify?

[Mamzelle]

Can she take the fifth if she is sued in civil court? You can find out a lot more in a civil proceeding than a criminal.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm not a lawyer...or a political strategist...but if the Chairman of that Committee (Is it Rep Issa?) proposes that she be given immunity that might just be even worse for our Community Organizer-In-Chief.

[Huskrrrr]

But she says she did nothing wrong. Alrighty then, let’s move on.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

She’s in ‘protect 0bama’ mode. Trey Gowdy was the only conscious person in the room and called her on making a proclamation while at the same time pleading the 5th. She essentially testified then said she wouldn’t. One strike against Issa.

[baddog 219]

[nascarnation]

Incredible comments on that WaPo story.

“Effort by Bush era holdovers in IRS to embarrass the administration”

I have to say the huge squad of internet posters on the Baraqqi staff are quick to respond.....

[NTHockey]

I didn’t do anything wrong = I did not have sex with that woman.

[DannyTN]

We need to find out more about the Washington legal office that Lerner’s group was collaborating with on these cases.

[isthisnickcool]

Issa just said that he is “looking in to the possibility of recalling her and that the hearing stands in recess”. It looks like Issa is calling her back in!

[MortMan]

She screwed up her 5th amendment claim, though. She swore in, declared herself innocent (i.e.: testified to her own innocence of wrongdoing), THEN invoked the 5th.

By making her declaratory statement under oath, she waived her 5th amendment rights.

[a fool in paradise]

Maybe there is still time for her to hit her head and catch the flu as Hillarity did before allegedly testifying before Congress on BenghaziGhazi.

[TBP]

How do you invoke the protection against self-incrimination if you “didn’t do anything wrong”? What’s to incriminate?

[TBP]

What did the president know and when did he know it?

[Mike Darancette]

I still can’t help thinking this a trap of some type; she has voluntarily crawled under the Bus and is pounding on the undercarriage to have the driver take off. Maybe she did this so she couldn’t get fired as just exercising her Constitutional rights is not grounds for termination. Eventually her underlings will have to testify, how comfortable will that be to come to work the next day and have her there glaring out her window at you.