What exactly are you confused about? Do you understand that he is putting the heat on Lerner in a effort to push her to seek immunity? He has said that if she will proffer - reveal what she knows - then she can receive immunity.
There is nothing *I* am confused about, but I am not the one who controls the outcome of this thing.
It is fine that Issa is offering immunity, but as one who, while not a lawyer, has been involved intimately with several lawsuits including some big ones....
Issa SHOULD have moved to seize those drives from day 1. He starts out, he asks a bunch of questions, appears to find a few things out, then acts in response to what he has learned, or suspects. Then he finds out some more things, and again moves in response to what he learns. Then he does it again. And again.
This is not characteristic of a well-planned and carefully orchestrated “campaign”. It is more like a scientific inquiry, where you find out something, you go here, you find out something else, you go there. And all you’re interested in, on some indeterminate timeframe, is finding out objective truth. This is not like that, there are attention-span issues, there is the proven ability of this admin to stonewall forever. This is not cutting to the bone. It is herky-jerky. It is hit-and-miss. Yes, it is possible that he will end up in some place that “prevails”. But as more and more time is taken up and more and more efforts come to naught, even if there is some effort that DOES lead to something, the likelihood that the whole thing dissipates grows larger.
I for one have little doubt that if Lerner is offered immunity and it really, really appears like she will spill the beans, she will be killed. She will have a mysterious heart attack or car accident. There, I said it.
And by the way....she knows it, too.
And do you really think that should that occur, the meme will be that that the evil Republicans harassed her to death?