By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--April 2, 2015
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The Justice Department has declined to pursue contempt of Congress charges against Lois Lerner for refusing to testify about her role at the IRS in the targeting of conservative groups. The department announced the decision in a letter Tuesday to House Speaker John Boehner, whose Republican-controlled chamber made the request to prosecute, after holding Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify at committee hearings. ...Lerner asserted her Fifth Amendment privilege, which allows people to not testify against themselves, during a May 2013 hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and then again at a March 2014 hearing. However, House Republicans argued Lerner waived the privilege with an opening statement she made before the committee in the May 2013 appearance. All the chamber’s Republican members and six Democrats officially voted in May 2014 to hold Lerner in contempt.Of course they're not. Did anyone actually think they would do anything other than protect their asset? As stated above, this should come as a surprise to absolutely no one who's been monitoring the actions of this administration over the last 6 years. If you honestly thought there was even a microscopic chance that Holder would bring contempt charges against Lerner - while Obama and his surrogates continue to display complete contempt for both Congress and separation of powers - you were really kidding yourself. In the clip below, Greta Van Susteren calls this "lucky." That, to say the least, is overly charitable. We call it "the Chicago way."
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