Why Lois Lerner Should Be Granted Immunity

National Review ^ | 5-10-2014 | Andrew C. McCarthy - Commentary

[GeronL]

Immunity?

She will lie through her teeth with immunity

[Hoodat]

Grant her immunity so that she can lie with impunity? No thanks.

[MaxMax]

IMO, it's not just the Administration. It's all those inside our Gov willing
to corrupt our system and are being protected.

When Bush took office we wanted him to clean house and he didn't. We're now paying the price.
The Dems are Treasonous through and through. They have sold out law and order for power.
I still remember him being hounded for firing a few people in the Gov to place his own
appointments. The MSM/Dems won by forcing him to stop the practice though intimidation.

[itsahoot]

Immunity deals for little fish get cut when they are able AND willing to help take down big fish. There is no evidence the Lerner is either able OR willing.

Either way she will never serve a day and we all know it. She will continue to draw and exorbitant pension and benefits that will maintain her unearned life style.

[dalereed]

Immunity never, jail her immediatly for contempt!!!!

[jonrick46]

President G.W. Bush was not up to the task of fighting the war on terror and the den of jackals in the DemonRAT Party. For him, the DemonRATs were a distraction which he chose to ignore. I was so disappointed in him for not grabbing that window of opportunity to clean house after the Clinton Regime. I was also disappointed that G.W. failed to have enough spine to take on the mountain of criticism heaped on him by the Left. It is these same agents of the Left that are taking this country down with the Zer0 as their point man.

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

‘if they could prove it’...You are assuming that another source of info would either be found or come forward. These are true believers and as such we have seen that they will deceive as a matter of course and why would you put your life on the line to come forward when you can be gotten to even in prison. Screw immunity, put her butt in jail till she talks, as far as I am concerned the damage she has done would justify waterboarding. Enough of this bull, time to shove her into a cold clammy cell and see how she feels about talking in a couple of months. Cutting off her pension is also possible till the investigation is over, see how long her lawyer hangs in with no pay. Take off the gloves, they have.

[ComputerGuy]

If granted immunity, she’ll be a dead gal walking.

[Cowboy Bob]

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.

[cynwoody]

You give her blanket immunity and she takes the fall for everything, insulating the Administration.

Presumably, that would entail her lying.

If she gets caught doing that, she goes to the can, blanket immunity or not. And likely for longer than if she'd just plead guilty with no immunity.

That's the beauty! She stays out of the can, but only at the cost of destroying those she believes in!

[nathanbedford]

If the House really wants to get to the bottom of the IRS abuses

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.

[Candor7]

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.

[cynwoody]

Immunity?
Oh hell no!

Keep your eye on the ball.

Lois Lerner doesn't matter.

Nor do the ideals of all those Americans of youth and of color and of guilt who put Barack Obama in office. Twice. I want them demoralized to the point of apathy. If they drop out of the political process in disgust and disillusionment, that is true progress!

I want their hero Obama and their ideals trashed and disrespected!

Letting Lois walk is a small price to pay if it enables that. (Plus, she'll know it 'til her dying day.)

[pepsionice]

Agreed. She shouldn’t require any immunity. The minute she accepts it...it really changes the public perception of her episode, and takes the news media down three or four notches.

[gusopol3]

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.

That has become quite clear , though I wouldn't have believed it a year ago. Will the attitude change now that republican primary season is ending?

[PGalt]

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

GESTAPO

GET THEM ALL

[ripley]

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.

IMHO

[Oldeconomybuyer]

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[VRW Conspirator]

If she refuses to submit a proffer it just tells me she’s going to take the full fall while the administration impedes any punishment.

Not an expert on this, but if there is someone else who can be prosecuted, then Lerner is vulnerable.

[Don Corleone]

You ONLY grant immunity if you know in advance what the testimony is going to produce. Betting on the “come” is a fatal error.