Lerner may be seeking an immunity deal, and her lawyer may have been sending Obama a signal: invoke exec privilege, or she sings like a canary.
Let’s give Issa some space here.
she’s already been sworn in so she’s still under oath. No way out.
Obama says he didn’t know what was going on, so how could he possibly assert executive privilege. If he tried that, it would be an admission he knew what was going on. He’s not going to do that.
Can’t invoke exec privlege. Only applies to direct advisors to the president, not some govt agency manager.