This morning, Lois Lerner again pleaded the Fifth, refusing to answer any of Chairman Darrell Issa’s questions.  After a few minutes of Lerner’s repetitive non-response, Issa adjourned the hearing, so we don’t know if the committee planned to address this particular issue. The Fifth, once described as protecting both “the innocent and the guilty,” has again has protected Lerner -- and by extension, her chain of command and some very interesting beneficiaries. Thomas Lifson adds: At the end of the hearing, Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, charged that the hearings were one-sided and “un-American. Chairman Issa cut him off, adjourned the hearing, walked out, and had Cummings’microphone disconnected. Noah Rothman reports in Mediaite: Issa told reporters outside that he had determined Lerner was not going to answer his questions, and as Cummings was using his allotted questioning time to “make a speech,”...(Read Full Post)