I am still facinated by the fact that Lois Lane Lerner stated she was pleading the fifth to keep from incriminating other people. First, you cannot plead the fifth to protect others...it is for "self" incrimination, or a spouse, and second, by saying this she is admitting she knows others have committed "incriminating" (criminal) offense.
She said it...plain as day...yet no one cares or picked up on the statement.
Sure they did. That is why she has to go back to Congress and submit to more testimony.
Wrong. Trey Gowdy(R-SC) picked up on it big time. Then Issa picked up on what Trey was saying.
Go watch it on youtube. Search Trey Gowdy.
“. . . Lois Lane Lerner stated she was pleading the fifth to keep from incriminating other people . . .”
I don’t think she said from “incriminating” other people. I believe she said something like “protect innocent” people. She knew she could not say “to keep from incriminating” other people. She also knew that pleading the 5th always makes a person look like they have indeed committed a crime, so she tried to shift the idea to protecting innocent people, meaning no crime was committed at all. She thought she was being clever, but she stepped right into a trap.
I believe that Lerner will appear again before Issa’s committee. Lerner will get another opportunity to answer questions.