Posted on 03/05/2014 6:32:19 AM PST by Doogle
LYING LOIS LERNER is about to testify...FOX has the live feed
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2553193403001/ex-irs-director-lois-lerner-appears-at-house-hearing/#sp=watch-live
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Certainly, Congress retains the authority to exercise enforce a subpoena through inherent contempt. But I question whether they any longer have the ability (not to mention will).
IIRC, after a negotiated agreement with the Executive branch a number of years ago, the Sergeant at Arms no longer has the authority to make an arrest beyond the bounds of Capitol Hill. And the Capitol Jail has been downgraded to essentially a holding tank, for the purpose of confining any public rowdies for a few hours. It is incapable of feeding any confinees or accommodating them overnight.
The flip side of the agreement was that the DOJ would handle subpoena service, any arrests required and confinement (as with Susan McDonough, e.g.) on a bi-partisan basis.
Obviously, a Democrat Congress could trust a Republican administration to fulfill their obligation. However, the Obama administration simply isn't going to cooperate with a Republican House.
In that regard, the House is legitimately stymied.
Great point, she was excused.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Not for long. Contempt process will begin. Lois dear actually waived her 5th amendment rights in the beginning, and so no limited or complete immunity will be offered. Lois is a Trojan Horse. Once she gets immunity, she will claim she organized all of the persecution of conservative groups, she is the “only one” to blame and no one else. In other words she is the scape goat designated by Obama. She gets immunity, takes ALL the blame.
But ISSA is not falling for it. He is going after the whole enchalata.Issa needs to keep at it.Watch Trey Gowdy.
Issa is beginning to have an effect on the Obama Collective. They are slowly going bonkers. Witness Cummings attempt to grand stand.Issa needs to turn up the heat on the IRS and Benghazi scandals , as well as the ATF gun running scandal.
I dearly hope that is the outcome. As is the pattern with this Administration, they are teflon, on steriods.
As with the press, This Administration will be protected at all costs. Still Waiting for the “Investigative” arm of the LA Times, to release the Obama tape. (at a Chicago party in honor of Rashid Khalidi) How many years now have they hidden it? During the first ascendance of The King, six (6) years now.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/09/20/in-wake-of-secret-romney-vid-los-angeles-times-reaffirms-it-will-not-publish-mysterious-obama-recording/
If the full House of Representatives chooses to cite Lerner for contempt, the case would be referred to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia who would be obligated to send the case on to a grand jury. The House can also use the inherent contempt process which would allow the House to conduct the case itself without a grand jury, though this process was last used in 1934.
Oversight lawmaker: Holding Lerner in contempt is where we're going
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