Posted on 05/22/2013 8:38:50 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Late Tuesday we reported that several lefty bloggers known to be very close to the Obama White House were in fact meeting in the White House. The meeting came a day ahead of hearings in which IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination and refused to testify to the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee. Lerner even refused to testify about her own previous statements on the IRS abuse scandal.
Today, we may be seeing the results of that Tuesday afternoon confab at the White House.
Josh Marshall (10:15a.m.): Lerner Must Go http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/she_has_to_go.php …
Ezra Klein (9:45a.m.): Heads should roll at IRS http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/22/yes-heads-should-roll-at-the-irs/ …10:40 AM - 22 May 2013
Yes, heads should roll at the IRS It's hard to fire civil servants. But that doesn't mean it can't, or shouldn't, be done. Washington Post @washingtonpost
The synchronicity is striking.
It’s also an indication of just how worried the White House is, and how it intends to contain the scandal. First, get reliably friendly bloggers and columnists on board with a story that focuses attention away from the White House. Then, isolate and target someone who has already become a central figure in the scandal and, more importantly, who does not work directly for the White House. Finally, make it appear as if these reliably friendly bloggers actually take the IRS scandal seriously, so they become voices in the larger media advocating for a strong response — just strong enough to look decisive, while keeping the White House outside the main storyline.
5.56mm
On Wednesday, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) senior official Lois Lerner, the director of the division that singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, pleaded the 5th Amendment at congressional hearings. The lawyer by her side at the hearings, William Taylor III of Zuckerman Spaeder, comes from a firm with unusually close ties to the Obama White House Counsel’s Office and Department of Justice.
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Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House Counsel, is a former associate at the firm. Ruemmler was a White House official who knew in advance that the IRS Inspector General Report would show the targeting of conservative groups before it was released to the general public.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022852/posts
Ruemmler met one-on-one with Treasury lawyer long before April
Daily Caller ^ | 5/22/13 | Charles C. Johnson
Good shot of Ezra Clown!
Cruz is already a step ahead of you, and he told it to their faces.
It could still be (50 - 50 chance) Obama&Co inform them more detailed and/or new scandals about to be dropped.
(Oh, how I wish the Hillary practically wrote the ARB report to be true!)
I think she should flip. She needs to ask herself if Hussein is worth spending her retirement years in prison. Stupid evl woman.
Benghazi !
Like someone else made mention about this last night, it will bring you to a political orgasm to play the video of his comments.
To see the arrogance of all the officials, with the exception of Mr. George, it appears they fear nothing and will take their limited time in prison because they appear to have already been told they will be pardoned after this term.
(I suspected this is what you meant, but just want to make sure.)
Something I forgot; they will not spend a day in prison because just getting to a trial will be long enough and, then the appeals process will further delay having to report for an orange jumpsuit.
She probably doesn't trust Republicans to follow through with a strong investigation. Republicans have the reputation of being people who 'give up' when faced with PC and a hostile media. That said, she'd be safer coming clean on this - dems won't protect her...
And Holder controls DoJ, they won't prosecute ‘contempt’, just like his own ‘contempt of congress’ charge.
The only one who might have more of a power is a special prosecutor, but I would be weary of who appoints whom to be the SP.
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