Posted on 05/16/2013 7:01:53 AM PDT by Hojczyk
When the president tried –too late and to little– to toss a sacrifice to the gods of the media who have turned on him by firing the short-term IRS Commish, he telegraphed to everyone who thought they had been helping him that in fact he will toss you under the bus when your time comes.
Which means: Time To Lawyer Up and Turns State’s Evidence.
It is probably too late for the four IRS employees in Cincinnati who will be this summer’s equivalent of the four Cubans who broke into the Watergate. We will figure out their McCord and their Liddy, and the inexorable march up the chain of command will unfold with a steady beat. A John Dean –“a bottom-dwelling slug” Joe Alsop called him– will emerge, and will show again the key truth of all D.C. scandals: If you are going down, flip first.
Many of you who are caught up in the email scandal of EPA, or the Obamacare fundraising scandal at HHS, or the scandals we don’t know about yet but which this atmosphere coaxes to the top, will end up quite nicely with a book deal and a consulting gig…if you get the optics right. The press loves a story bearer, so be that guy or gal.
The good news is that there are a lot of fine lawyers to defend you in these circumstances. The bad news is they are expensive. The worst news is that the old law providing for reimbursement for the investigated-but-not-indicted is gone. You will have to bear your own mcosts.
The good news: Jump in early enough and you get a lower cost . Wait too long and all the good ones are gone and the rates go up. So, here are my rules for “Lawyering Up”:
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I think that they should get immunity so they can tell the truth. There is no way a few low-level employees did this.
What a great analogy! I had completely forgotten about the Cubans.
I want to know who came up with the questions that were sent to the tea party people...
I have worked for a large paper behemoth corp. with lots of rules & regs and there is NO WAY this happened without upper mgt involved; if that were true then as soon as a complaint was made it would have ended and the employee fired.
But 500 audits? Nope-not possible-especially with the questionnaires requesting children’s names etc.-that to me was an obvious threat from the govt., not some schmuck at a desk...
Lawyer up and get immunity-fast. Great advice.
Turn the screws until they finger who told them to do it.
Rinse.
Repeat.
That will be why Obama pays them off and fires them, no procecution. And they will be told NOT to talk due to the ‘ongoing investigation’ that ends Dec 2016.
Clinton was great at that trick.
I have worked for a large paper behemoth corp. with lots of rules & regs and there is NO WAY this happened without upper mgt involved; if that were true then as soon as a complaint was made it would have ended and the employee fired.
But 500 audits? Nope-not possible-especially with the questionnaires requesting children’s names etc.-that to me was an obvious threat from the govt., not some schmuck at a desk...
------ And which IRS attorney approved the questions used. No way any agent would act without their assigned office attorney approving them.
everyone who thought they had been helping him that in fact he will toss you under the bus when your time comes
As Uncle Si says “That’s a fact Jack”.
No one wants to be the next one. This Administration is akin to a house of cards, it will continue to fall because now none of the “low level co-conspirators” know who is next on IRS, AP phone, Benghazi, BinLaden dunk in the sea, Pigford, FannyMae, Green or any other dem gubmit dirty tricks and grand theft.
This is not a new phenomenon, every dem administration back as far as I remember all had similar things going, maybe just not quite a dramatic as the first (or is this the 2nd?) black Prez’s.
Low level employees don’t think up this kind of stuff. It always comes from the top down.
they should onlyget immunity after the testify, if not they will just claim they did it all themselves, and walk away.
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