Yesterday, I was thinking either her lawyer wasn't up to snuff or that he was in cahoots with the WH to take Lerner down. Now, I'm thinking it is just overweening arrogance on her part. She thinks she shouldn't be held to the same rules as everyone else. "You'll hear what
I have to say and that's it."
She is a true daughter of the Revolution. She's been at this kind of stuff for a long time. Before the IRS, she was hammering people through the FEC and, as Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs describes, was head of the Enforcement Division of the FEC and made sure not to investigate the mountain of illegal overseas money rolling into the Obama campaign coffers. Remember this sort of thing?
She's had a controlling hand in corrupting TWO presidential elections.
Yesterday, I was thinking either her lawyer wasn't up to snuff or that he was in cahoots with the WH to take Lerner down. Now, I'm thinking it is just overweening arrogance on her part. She thinks she shouldn't be held to the same rules as everyone else. "You'll hear what I have to say and that's it." I'm inclined to that interpretation, as well.
According to Issa afterward, her lawyer had advised him that a.) she would invoke the 5A and b.) she would not be making a statement.
I suspect Lerner chose to disregard her lawyer's professional advice so that she could tell the world (and those contemptible Republicans) how important and how innocent she was.
In other words, her attorney had an incompetent client.