‘I for one have little doubt that if Lerner is offered immunity and it really, really appears like she will spill the beans, she will be killed’
Lerner is not the only who filled this particular can of beans and there are many more who can kick this can over. If Lerner suddenly kicks the bucket aside from justice being served, that would also quite possibly force the others to run straight to Issa.
Issa is allowing them to do what stupid criminals do and that is paint themselves into a corner. No one who pays attention believes a word these thugs are saying, and the more evidence they destroy the farther up the ladder this goes. We only had Lerner and one hard drive, now, if I am counting correctly, we have 5 more names and hard drives.
Could be there is method to Issa’s madness.
Could be. I doubt it, as he is not a credentialed lawyer and I don’t discern “lawyerly” skill in his various interrogations.
But I have no doubt that you and I want exactly the same thing, so I am not arguing with you on that.
Really, the issue with this admin, over and over, is that it flat out doesn’t matter how deep nor how wide the lawlessness goes if there is no threat nor actuality of prosecution. It’s no more complicated than that. Whatever prosecution occurs to the characters in this thing, if it originates with Holder, my view is that it will be internally sabotaged and will go nowhere.