ABC: Did Darrell Issa Botch Lois Lerner’s IRS Contempt Proceedings?

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Rep. Elijah Cummings, who sparred passionately with House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa during a public hearing last week, is questioning whether Issa’s actions to end the hearing may have let former IRS official Lois Lerner off the hook from potential criminal contempt proceedings.

Cummings continued his showdown with Issa in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner Wednesday that argues Lerner’s potential prosecution would likely be dismissed because of a procedural technicality if the House were to move forward with a resolution of contempt.

Lerner, the former IRS director of exempt organizations, first refused to answer questions from members of the committee at the May 22 hearing last year. But that day, when Lerner read a statement aloud and authenticated a document for the record under oath, questions arose surrounding the validity of her assertion of her Fifth Amendment rights. Republicans then ruled her actions waived her right to refuse to testify.


full: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/did-darrell-issa-botch-lois-lerner-irs-contempt-proceedings/

[Soul Crusher]

I thought that idiot did nothing wrong?  Despite pleading the 5th? 

Yeah the IRS Commissioner pleads the 5th - and yet O-TWINK says there is nothing amiss.  Go figure. 


A bunch of traitors and criminals from top to bottom. 

[StreetSoldier4U]

Having seen the video cummings behaved like a fool.  Issa who I dislike gave him opportunities to ask a question before closing the meeting.  Cummings didn't want to ask a question he wanted to make a scene.

[Soul Crusher]

Having seen the video cummings behaved like a fool.  Issa who I dislike gave him opportunities to ask a question before closing the meeting.  Cummings didn't want to ask a question he wanted to make a scene.

Cummrag is just there to protect Obama at all costs - nothing else

[240 is Back]

Issa was very ineffective in Fast & Furious...

[RRKore]

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Cummings didn't want to ask a question he wanted to make a scene.

If he did want to ask a question it was only after making a scene, at least.. 

Is that not commonly done during these sorts of things, though? 

I don't watch enough congressional hearings to know the answer to that but I've seen youtube clips of congressmen doing some pretty entertaining ranting so it does happen at least once in a while, I think.