When former IRS official Lois Lerner decided to give Politico
an interview about life after becoming public enemy number one for tinfoil conservatives, she steered clear of talking about the specific allegations Republicans have made against her, sticking to general statements about having done nothing wrong.
But even though that's the same posture she took in invoking the Fifth Amendment when House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa asked her to testify before Congress about the IRS and how it handled non-profit applications from tea party groups, Issa is still extremely jealous—or at least he's pretending to be:
“Her decision to make unsubstantiated claims to a media outlet while claiming Fifth Amendment protections from answering Congress’ questions is telling,” Issa (R-Calif.) said in a statement on Monday. “She appears to have great confidence that her allies in the Obama Administration will not consider legal action after she resigned and declined to discuss the IRS’ actions against private citizens.”
Actually, what's telling is Issa's continued inability to find any evidence to substantiate the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration used the IRS to swing the 2012 election and that Lois Lerner was an accomplice. Perhaps if Issa still had Benghazi to play around with he wouldn't waste his time publicly pouting about Lerner's interview, but he doesn't—and as he well knows, people who want to believe conspiracy theories will believe them whether there is evidence or not. In fact, for the true conspiracy buff, the lack of evidence is the most revealing evidence of all.