Write this down, because this is what is going to happen.
Louis Lerner's fiasco before congress yesterday will go down in history as a confused bungle of an attempt to do something, nobody is quite clear as to what exactly she was trying to do, it will be studied by law students for years to come and, this is the important part, it will be ruled by whatever Court ends up hearing this (presuming that it goes that far - and it should) that she did not, in fact, provide direct material testimony before invoking her 5th Amendment rights and therefore cannot be recalled by Congress.
And you are already mad about it. Even if you don't believe me, and think that the talking heads on Fox are infallible, you are angry at the idea that I could be right and put off by the confidence I have have that I am right.
You should be.
For the record, I don't want to be right. Frankly, this is a plate of crow I would gladly chow down upon. But you know as well as I do that when it comes to technical matters of the law, things rarely work out in a way that provides for what we common folk like to call, common sense.
Furthermore, if it were you or I making such a statement and then invoking our 5th Amendment Rights, we'd be blasted by the Judge, mocked by the opposition lawyers and end up being told to answer the question(s) or go to jail for contempt. But, as you may have noticed, neither you nor I are the head of an entire Department of the Internal Revenue Service, the most feared and politically useful agency in the entire Federal Government. Try as they might to appear otherwise, neither Democrats nor Republicans want to give up the most powerful piece of Governmental control.
And so, Congress will do what makes them look like they look like they are up in arms and look like they are looking like they are doing something about this, but in the end, they will rely on the Court system which after great and careful deliberation will decide that her statement did not amount to "testimony" and tell Congress to leave her alone. She'll be "vindicated" and essentially cleared. One party's hard noses will look "mean spirited" and vindictive, going after a woman, after all, for just doing her job. Pretty much nobody will notice when 2014 rolls around and elections are happening with both parties claiming to represent the interests of the American People, that each are conveniently forgetting that now both sides have been caught at least once using the IRS to punish political opponents. Amazingly enough, neither side has done one single thing to prevent it from ever happening again.
Polls say that almost half of Americans aren't paying attention to the IRS scandal. Why should they? Nearly half have literally nothing to fear from the IRS.
Trust me, Louis Lerner is done "testifying" before Congress. The talking heads will tell you that she "screwed up" and "is in contempt." Nope, she did what she had to do to keep the actions right on truck'n. In the end, the people who are screaming about her "contempt" will be the ones vilified and defeated.
And the IRS will go back to the shadows, watching and auditing. Oh, and running health care...
That's right. Congress decided that dissent against the government "during time of war" was now the moral equivalent of 
Think about it. She's the City Attorney. She knows her job and duties. So failure to read eMail means that she is either (a) incompetent, in which case she needs a bit more than a "Counseling Session" and the full support and backing of the City Council; or (b) she intentionally did not read them because she knew that they would make her complicit in the fraud, which she says didn't happen. 
