If granted immunity, she’ll be a dead gal walking.
Lois Lerner should not be granted immunity simply for the fact that she is a smug little A**hole.
Convict her and then offer some reduced time off her sentence if she will name names.
She should also lose her federal pension and health benefits. That, I think, will hit her the hardest.
And there is the rub, the House or at least The Speaker and Eric Cantor and the rest of the Republican establishment do not want to get to the bottom of the IRS abuses because they themselves are threatened by The Tea Party and are not opposed to seeing it suppressed.
Andrew McCarthy makes a good point that the administration and the IRS are proceeding to codify that which they're being investigated for even as The Republicans in the House dither. Boehner knows they are doing this and one can only draw the conclusion that his passivity arises out of his selfish interest.
Some posters have misconceived the purpose and function of offers of immunity following proffers. The declarant must have enough red meat to offer the investigators to entice them to grant immunity but Lois Lerner has no incentive under the circumstances as the Republicans have created them to make such a proffer because she is under no real threat. A special committee, which Boehner stubbornly declines to appoint, would by now presumably have created a list of crimes supported by sufficient evidence to make Lois Lerner very frightened that she would be prosecuted beginning in January 2017 if she does not get a pardon from the Bamster.
You need a special committee on the IRS scandal for the same reasons you need a special committee for the Benghazi scandal and Boehner is culpable not just for negligence but, I believe, for misfeasance for failing to appoint such committees in a timely manner.
McCarthy writes a great article here. I agree with him and was very suprised that Lerner was not granted amnesty, in the interest of correcting IRS abuse of power.
I was under the impression that Lerner was offered immunity but refused it, instead cooperating with the Dept. Justice investigation, which is the REAL REASON why she is now held in contempt.She cooperated with teh Dept. Justice, but not with the Oversight Comittee.
I believe that Lerner is a criminal. The IRS has hung Lois out to dry, and so they will roll up the web of her co conspirators with her.The real problem is getting at the White House staff involved in the crime.They will never be discovered in time to do something about them at this rate.
Subversive junior-high-schoolers, elected by other subversive junior-high-schoolers, are running the show and have made their own immunity by way of their close-to-the-shoulder goose-stepping.
The time seems to be ripe for their very own
Reichstag fire.
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Immunity? I was thinking: the scene from “Taken.”
If Lois tells the truth, she’s a dead person. She knows it.
The IRS investigation is all about Republicans trying to have it both ways. They want to appear to be tough on the outrageous abuses so they can get re-elected but at the same time "wink wink" don't ya know our Democrat friends nothing will come out of this.