Lois Lerner Fights Back!

American Thinker ^ | 06/30/2014 | Ed Timperlake

[SeekAndFind]

Just when the media is beginning to really pressure Congress to grant Lois Learner immunity – “the American people need to know, so let her talk” – her lawyer plays the Sergeant Schultz card from Hogan’s Heroes.  "I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!"

He has validated Chairman Issa’s position on Lois Lerner being uncooperative, so why bother?  This back-and-forth also has probably being going on for some time between Lerner’s legal teams and Congress, and now it is the former's apparent public strategy.

In this epic constitutional battle and the quest for transparency and justice, Lerner's lawyer has to be taken very seriously.  According to his law firm's marketing blurb, William Taylor III (Yale Law ‘69):

... is also well-known for his creative motions practice and is often successful in obtaining dismissal of charges against his clients before trial. He is equally at home in complex commercial litigations and straightforward credibility contests. Clients retain him not only for his litigation successes but also for his judgment and advice.

As a pro, he must know the rule that he has decided to violate: if you are explaining, you are losing.  Someone with his self-identified lofty proven judgment has a legal strategy and a purpose to his engaging the media now.  So how is it going?

Let’s look at his opening move: “She doesn’t know what happened,” Taylor said of the 2011 computer crash that erased two years’ worth of Lerner’s correspondence.  “It’s a little brazen to think she did this on purpose.”

First, he is actually asserting that she didn’t do it on purpose.  But it did happen, so she either she did accidentally or someone with reach power and understanding of the consequences of the e-mails ordered it done.

[rovenstinez]

This from the Administration that promised to be the most TRANSPARENT and TRUTH TELLING. wow,

[VerySadAmerican]

She made a long opening statement then took the fifth. Trey Gowdy tried to tell Issa she had waived her right but Issa let her get up and leave. Issa is all bark and no bite.

[Star Traveler]

The article is probably right ... Lerner is going to get a Presidential pardon.

[cableguymn]

yup. Zero is trying to limp everything past the mid-terms.. then they pardons will fly.

[Hotlanta Mike]

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[Blood of Tyrants]

Congress should not give her immunity unless she agrees to tell who gave her the orders to target conservative organizations.

[I want the USA back]

That arrogant shriveled up old hag should be in jail.

[NonValueAdded]

And he barks like a Chihuahua

[sonjay]

As a matter of policy, I never believe anything asserted by a lawyer whose client has taken the 5th. Anything he says is completely irrelevant.

[Ultima]

Lerner will probably skate and not even need a pardon.