IRS Emails: Lerner Too 'Unpredictable' to Testify in Probe

Newsmax ^

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Lois Lerner, who oversaw the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of tea party groups, was looking for someone from every branch of government to help resolve the issue that eventually cost her job.

In emails being released today by a congressional committee, Lerner wondered why Congress wasn’t getting more criticism, hoped that the Federal Election Commission would "save the day" and wrote that political nonprofit groups "itching for a constitutional challenge" might file a court case that leads the IRS to accelerate the release of specific information about groups denied tax-exempt status.

The emails are part of a 141-page report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The panel is building a case designed to lead to a vote to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer the committee’s questions and for providing false and misleading information in prior questioning.

"She led efforts to scrutinize conservative groups while working to maintain a veneer of objective enforcement," the report said of Lerner. "Her unwillingness to testify deprives Congress the opportunity to have her explain her conduct, hear her response to personal criticisms levied by her IRS co-workers, and provide vital context regarding the actions of other IRS officials."

Lerner has refused to answer lawmakers’ questions, twice invoking her constitutional right not to testify.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That is just it, she can’t spill the beans because she wasn’t specifically TOLD to use the power of the IRS against conservatives. She just did it thinking it is what Obama would tell her to do and to be a good little socialist. Issa won’t give her immunity because he knows that it will be letting the biggest fish he is likely to get off the hook.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Rats loved the independent counsel law until it was used against them and then they were all to happy to let it die. Now, there is only Congress to punish them and they know the likelihood of that happening is remote.

[Starstruck]

Wonder why Sarah Ingram, Lois Lerner’s boss at the time and now head of the IRS Affordable Care Act Division with 165 visits to the White House only has two sentences on her Wikipedia page.