A Person of Privilege? Lois Lerner was too clever by half.

National Review Online ^ | May 23, 2013 | Fred Thompson

[Fledermaus]

He’s been on vacation. I think he’s back tonight.

[mad_as_he$$]

I watched three times. This appears to be all staged to me. Issa is just a pawn. In any case he blew it. Had her on the ropes and backed off.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Where is the video?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDevz5uBd5o

[BigDaddyTX]

http://youtu.be/czYV5eXPk5U

[mware]

Fox just reported that it was HOLDER, himself who signed off on going after Rosen.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I watched the video and it seemed to me that Issa’s was reading from a prepared/scripted sheet, everything from asking her to confirm the IRB to advising her to speak with counsil and excusing her for recess. It could be that Issa was prepared with multiple responses depending on how she reacted to his “trap”. Watch the video and let me know what you think.

I concur. What struck me in watching/listening was that Chairman Issa sounded like anything but a babe in the woods in the exchange with Lerner. He was making lawyer-like noises, and I seriously doubt that Lerner’s lawyer was lighting up a cigar while listening to to him. It didn’t sound at all to me like anything Gowdy (sp?) said came as a surprise to Issa.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Is EO 10491 an Obama EO?

I think I heard it was Ike's. Could be wrong.

55 posted on 05/23/2013 12:18:12 PM PDT by houeto

If it’s not an Obama EO, I’d bet a whole case of lager that he won’t enforce it. - MortMan

It was signed by Eisenhower back in ’53, and although you are undoubtedly correct that she is covering for Obama, if she is not terminated, contrary to a standing EO and common sense, that will be an obvious scandal in its own right.

I’m put in mind of “Who hired Craig Livingstone?” Imagine if the question is asked whether the EO has been executed in this case - who is going to stand up and say, I knew about the EO and I decided not to terminate Ms. Lerner.” Is Obama actually going to stand up and overturn the EO, actually taking responsibility for, in effect, rehiring Lerner?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Surprise, surprise!

[okie01]

Yesterday, I was thinking either her lawyer wasn't up to snuff or that he was in cahoots with the WH to take Lerner down. Now, I'm thinking it is just overweening arrogance on her part. She thinks she shouldn't be held to the same rules as everyone else. "You'll hear what I have to say and that's it."

I'm inclined to that interpretation, as well.

According to Issa afterward, her lawyer had advised him that a.) she would invoke the 5A and b.) she would not be making a statement.

I suspect Lerner chose to disregard her lawyer's professional advice so that she could tell the world (and those contemptible Republicans) how important and how innocent she was.

In other words, her attorney had an incompetent client.

[KeyLargo]

Newsmax
Rand Paul: Would Have Suspended Lerner Without Pay
Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:41 PM

Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday called the decision by the embattled IRS to replace Lois Lerner over the agency’s targeting scandal “a beginning” but that “I would have suspended her without pay.”

“We have to watch very closely, because what they tend to do is they transfer people around and change their titles,” the Kentucky Republican told Fox News’ Eric Bolling on the “Hannity” program.

Lerner, who oversees tax-exempt organizations for the IRS, was placed on paid administrative leave. She refused to answer questions on Wednesday at a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

She invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination after giving a statement in which she denied wrongdoing.

Paul cited the four State Department officials who were supposed to lose their jobs over the attacks in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans last Sept. 11.

“I know that within the State Department, the four people he said he was going to fire are still there,” Paul said. “We called them this week and they still all have phones at the State Department.