This is like a time warp...
The DOJ “Q&A” sounds more like a debriefing.
Referring this to the US Attorney is an abdication by the House of their power. There’s no reason for the House to punt.
Nixon had hush money to pay the plumbers. Obama will cover her legal fees, and more
Can she get jail time?
Talk, talk, talk..........where the hell is the walk, walk, walk?
Google produces some articles about this from previous cases, including when Holder thumbed his nose at Congress.
As I said before and will say again - nothing was done then and there will be nothing of substance done now. In a fair world, men of integrity would charge her with contempt (or a Jack Ryan type would covertly waterboard her!) but these days political expediency trumps integrity every single time.
If Lois Lerner had carried out the IRS’s vendetta against Conservative groups on her own, she would have been fired. The president would have had no compunction about throwing her under the bus, as he’s done with so many others, for tainting his presidency with a major political scandal.
But of course, Lois Lerner didn’t act alone. Why else would she take the Fifth Amendment except to protect her higher-ups, almost certainly including the president, who directed her to use the IRS against Conservative groups to help Obama win the 2012 election?
If Lois Lerner does NOT tell the truth to Congress, she will go to jail for perjury when the truth of the White House’s involvement inevitably comes out. On the other hand, if she DOES tell the truth, she will implicate the president in an impeachable offense — which Obama’s Chicago-mafia friends must be threatening her against doing in very dire terms. Taking the Fifth is exactly how lower mob functionaries like Lois Lerner solve this dilemma.
It’s not about Lois Lerner — it’s about the President. And it’s the duty of Congress, in our system of checks and balances, to get to the bottom of this executive-branch crime. If the Republicans in Congress fail to do this, it will be they who deserve contempt, more so than a relatively low-level apparatchick in the IRS who carried out orders and is being threatened if she divulges the truth.
Throw her in jail until she starts talking.
The House is too busy holding America in contempt...
They should use any “process” available and string up as many of these communist rats as they can.
Just when Lois is about to talk, she will have a sailing accident on the Potomoc and drown with her hand on the presidential tiller.
EVERY person who sat in on the meeting from the “Just Us” Dept. are CRIMINALS since they are PROTECTING OTHER CRIMINALS, LERNER, Obama etal.