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Someone on one of the FOX shows last night (Greta, perhaps) said that the laws pertaining to Civil Service employees require a 30 day period of administrative leave with pay, for “review”, I suppose, before an employee can be terminated. Then I would guess that there are probably appeals after that.

Newt (on Greta) was talking about how some of these laws go back to the 1800’s, and how badly the system is in dire need of total overhaul, as opposed to just going after certain individuals (or by implication) any given administration. He does have a point there, and I would extend it:

The TEA Party is a threat to the GOP-e, and I am not so sure the same sort of thing might not go on under a GOP administration, directed at the TEA Party. Some of these people are career vampires, regardless of who appointed them. Mr. Shulman, for example, seems to have at a minimum been “looking the other way”...

Couple of things going on here ~

(1) IRS simply can't operate if you have jack booted federal thugs ~ Lois Lerner certainly qualifies ~ pleading the 5th about ACTIONS TAKEN AS AN OFFICER OF THE GOVERNMENT. She is the very sort of individual the Bill of Rights was written to protect all the rest of us from!

(2) The Congress has an advantage if she continues to hold a government position in that they can take action against her as an OFFICER OF THE GOVERNMENT and strip her of her earned benefits ~ if they can figure out the right charge to make. And we all want Lois stripped bare and nekkid (in court), right?

Now, about union relationships with Lois, she has a job that prohibits union representation. I'd think that extends to her legal bills, although her hubby will probably get a good rate from some of his buddies ~ he's a tax lawyer you know.

I'm preparing to plead the 5th on my next federal income tax filing BTW ~ see how far that gets me eh!!

The Pendleton Act probably still has some active parts ~ but IRS has its own sections written many years later. One of them is going to be a requirement that you stay on the rolls until we are done questioning you....... ~ after all you be the TAX MAN pouncing on the public left and right ~ THE TAX MAN ~ all up and down with all the might.

Let me interpret that ~ you can't just walk away from some of these federal agencies. They have to let you leave first ~ and they can make you talk with no 5th amendment protection whatsoever about what you did on the job. These folks were, at the bottom end, the rough equivalent of Captains and Majors. Some of the middle men were the equivalent of Colonels, and there's even a couple of Generals in the dock. Thse are not janitorial staff.