Humboldt Republican Women: The exciting — I mean it! — conclusion to this weekend’s mystery about whether Lerner was thinking of testifying after all.

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The exciting — I mean it! — conclusion to this weekend’s mystery about whether Lerner was thinking of testifying after all.

◼ WATCH: Lerner Takes Fifth In Response to Questions About IRS Scandal - Heritage
◼ BREAKING: Lois Lerner Refuses to Answer Questions Before Congress, Pleads the Fifth Again - Katie Pavlich/Townhall
◼ Issa Asks Lerner Devastating Questions - Daniel Halper/Weekly Standard

...In October 2010, you told a Duke University group: “The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldn’t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they don’t like it. The Federal Election Commission can’t do anything about it. They want the IRS to fix the problem.”

• Who exactly wanted you to “fix the problem” caused by Citizens United?

In February 2011, you e-mailed your colleagues in the IRS: “Tea Party Matter very dangerous. This could be the vehicle to go to court on the issue of whether Citizens United overturning the ban on corporate spending applies to tax-exempt rules. Counsel and Judy Kindell need to be in on this one please. Cincy should probably NOT have these cases.”

• Why did you think the Tea Party cases were “very dangerous”?

In September 2010, you e-mailed your subordinates about initiating a “c4 project,” but wrote: “we need to be cautious so it isn’t a per se political project.”

• Why were you worried about this being perceived as a political project?

Michael Seto, manager of EO Technical in Washington, testified that you ordered Tea Party cases to undergo a “multi-tier review.” He testified: “She sent me email saying that when these cases need to go through multi-tier review and they will eventually have to go to Miss Kindell and the chief counsel’s office.”

• Why did you order the Tea Party cases to undergo a “multi-tier review”?

◼ Video: Lois Lerner takes the Fifth again as Issa cuts off Cummings’s mic - HotAir

Riddle me this, though: Why don’t they just agree to grant her immunity for her testimony? Her lawyer’s asked for it before, and her testimony’s certainly more valuable than seeing her go to prison, especially given the ignominy she’s already suffered for her role in the IRS scandal.