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Lois Lerner Talks to DOJ
Townhall.com ^ | 3/7/14 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 03/07/2014 4:40:37 PM PST by Nachum

Lois Lerner has answered questions for the DOJ investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, but continues to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights before the congressional committee.

It's an interesting decision, albeit not without precedent. Either Lerner feels that the committee is doing nothing but setting "perjury traps" for her, or else she's assured that the DOJ "investigation" is little more than an exercise in making the scandal disappear, and thus is helping the department craft a narrative designed to do just that. Or both.

There are, of course, a number of good reasons for objective observers to suspect that Lerner's motives are less than pure:

(1) The DOJ investigation is being led by an Obama donor -- a highly unusual circumstance

(2) Attorney General Eric Holder himself has a checkered history when it comes to favoritism among non-profits.

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To: Candor7
Time for a special prosecutor.

Definitely. But it won't happen unless we keep the House and gain the Senate this year.

21 posted on 03/07/2014 6:20:41 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Cyclone59

If she took the immunity, she’d lose her pension I bet.


22 posted on 03/07/2014 6:34:37 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Nachum

A little like Eichmann talking to Himmler.


23 posted on 03/07/2014 6:36:07 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Immunity is the worst possible option for us. Once she has immunity, she can do a “Lewinski”—give them nothing incriminating. Unless a deal can be worked out which grants immunity only if she names names, we’re screwed. If the decision were solely up to her, I think she’d talk. But since she’s completely under the control of her bosses (Holder, Jarrett, Obama), she will reveal nothing. She may do time, but Obama will pardon her on his last day in office.


24 posted on 03/07/2014 6:54:03 PM PST by huckfillary
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To: Nachum
Issa strikes me as having a tiny set compared to Holder (off the charts) and the uber apparatchik Lerner.

Wouldn't bet the farm on this resulting in anything substantial.

25 posted on 03/07/2014 7:00:49 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Nachum

If she ever decides to talk she better not tell anyone first, or she will end up in a crashed airplane with a hole in her head.


26 posted on 03/07/2014 7:17:54 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: huckfillary

I don’t agree that if it were up to her she would testify. She comes across as a hard core leftist perfectly at ease with violating the law and using the power of government to attack and weaken the opposition. She is perfectly comfortable with her actions and I would bet did what she did with enthusiasm.


27 posted on 03/07/2014 7:28:55 PM PST by falcon99
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To: Nachum

28 posted on 03/07/2014 7:31:10 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“A little like Eichmann talking to Himmler.”

Why I didn’t know Holder was German.


29 posted on 03/07/2014 7:39:50 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Nachum

Subpoena what she said to the DOJ then. She can’t claim the 5th on testimony she’s already given.


30 posted on 03/07/2014 8:02:40 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Nachum

I would call that a conspiracy to obstruct a Congressional investigation . . . can you get in trouble for that????


31 posted on 03/07/2014 8:16:49 PM PST by RatRipper (The political left are utterly evil and corrupt)
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To: Nachum

Truth be known, Lerner and the DOJ are cooking up her defense that the DOJ can prove! They’re all a bunch of damn crooks.


32 posted on 03/07/2014 8:23:01 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: Nachum

Talks to the DOJ to plot their scheme.


33 posted on 03/08/2014 5:18:51 AM PST by Old Yeller (In Latin, the word sinister means left. Which is appropriate for left-wingers.)
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To: dalereed

so we could have exposed and convicted bigger fish. It’s called opportunity cost - what are you willing to give up for something else.


34 posted on 03/08/2014 7:51:43 AM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: falcon99

Yep, Lerner has had no intent on serving this country, only empowering Democrats is priority #1.


35 posted on 03/08/2014 8:11:20 AM PST by Son House (Democrats want you to use 'Great Recession' instead of 'Jobless Recovery', recession ended June 2009)
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To: Son House

Lois Lerner must be executed for her crimes against the Republic


36 posted on 03/08/2014 8:14:06 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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