{"id":19584,"date":"2013-07-07T20:09:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19584"},"modified":"2013-07-07T20:09:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T00:09:42","slug":"if-she-didnt-do-anything-wrong-why-does-she-need-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19584","title":{"rendered":"If She Didn&#8217;t Do Anything Wrong, Why Does She Need Immunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will readily admit to being a simple person&#8211;black is black, white is white, to me life is pretty simple. But sometimes when I see what goes on in our legal system and political system, I just wonder who is making the rules and if anyone making the rules has any common sense. This article is an example of my simplicity coming up against the complexity of our legal system.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/07\/06\/IRS-Official-Lois-Lerner-Wants-Immunity-to-Testify-Before-Congress\">Breitbart.com<\/a> reported that Lois Lerner has told the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_House_Committee_on_Oversight_and_Government_Reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">House Oversight and Government Reform Committee<\/a> that she will not testify before them without being granted full immunity. Hmm. If she didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, why does she need full immunity?<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>On Tuesday, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"William W. Taylor\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_W._Taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">William W. Taylor<\/a> III, attorney for Lois Lerner, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> official at the center of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Tea Party\" href=\"http:\/\/teaparty.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Tea Party<\/a> targeting scandal who invoked her <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Fifth amendment rights<\/a> before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 22, set forward his client&#8217;s\u00a0hard line\u00a0conditions to return and testify openly before the committee.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing it the easy way \u2026 immunity.\u00a0That\u2019s the way to resolve all of this,&#8221; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/lois-lerner-irs-testimony-immunity-93684.html\">told<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Politico\" href=\"http:\/\/politico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Politico<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As I said&#8211;I am a simple person. If she didn&#8217;t do anything wrong, why does she need immunity?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=45375153-8aed-483e-8e86-7ae952e4f20c\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will readily admit to being a simple person&#8211;black is black, white is white, to me life is pretty simple. 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