The Zipper Lip Rule

Flanders

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The rule used to be “Nobody talks —— everybody walks.” Nowadays everybody talks and everybody walks as Rep. Gowdy pointed out before Lois Lerner got a pass:



Lerner had appeared before a May 22, 2013, hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and declined to answer questions about the IRS treatment of Tea Party groups, citing her Fifth Amendment protections. But then-chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., argued that when she made an opening statement asserting that she had done nothing wrong, she had waived her right to remain silent.

Machen said in his letter that Justice Department lawyers "concluded that Ms. Lerner did not waive her Fifth Amendment privilege by making an opening statement . . . because she made only general claims of innocence."

DOJ drops contempt case against Lois Lerner
Paul Singer, USA TODAY 6:06 p.m. EDT April 1, 2015

DOJ drops contempt case against Lois Lerner

NOTE: The DOJ decides how the Fifth Amendment applies to Democrats and conservative Republicans.

Hillary Clinton is an old hand at talking and walking. She began her walk on the dark side with clever schemes for financing Democrat party election campaigns. Renting out the Lincoln bedroom only raised chump-change when compared to what is happening nowadays.

Remember the best joke ever: “I cannot afford a thousand dollars for one night in the Lincoln Bedroom; so can I come over and take an afternoon nap for fifty bucks?”

Basically, this is how big money schemes work:

In addition to money taken in by the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Foundation, a large percentage of the billions that is paid to the UN every year will be laundered and returned to the Clintons who will distribute the swag to worthy Democrats up for reelection. There is no need to amass a long list of lawbreakers pleading the Fifth, or fleeing the country to avoid prosecution. Hell, they talk about it openly.

And just for insurance Boss Clinton is secure in the knowledge that her UN gang-members won’t have to rat her out because their diplomatic immunity is tighter than the Zipper Lip Rule. Americans only have to plead the Fifth to complete the cycle should the DOJ fall into the wrong hands.

The Benghazi crowd outdid Lois Lerner. Led by the venerable Suzy Five Shows they refuse to shut up!


Yet Clinton and the Obama administration persisted for weeks in blaming the obscure anti-Islam video as the primary motivation. In her memoir, “Hard Choices,” published last June, Clinton continued to defend the YouTube-video storyline, claiming it was a reflection of what the U.S. intelligence community believed at the time.

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In “Hard Choices,” Clinton defended the actions of then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, who on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, infamously appeared on five morning television programs to offer the official Obama administration response to the Benghazi attack.

In nearly identical statements, Rice asserted that the attack was a spontaneous protest in response to a “hateful video.”

Writes Clinton in her book: “Susan stated what the intelligence community believed, rightly or wrongly, at the time. That was the best she or anyone could do. Every step of the way, whenever something new was learned, it was quickly shared with Congress and the American people. There is a difference between getting something wrong, and committing wrong. A big difference that some have blurred to the point of casting those who made a mistake as intentionally deceitful.”

Hacked Hillary emails punch holes in Benghazi story
Posted By Aaron Klein
On 04/01/2015 @ 7:15 pm

Hacked Hillary emails punch holes in Benghazi story

Talk about talking! Hillary is copping a plea for the same thing that got Bush the Younger crucified. Blame foreign intelligence services. The difference is in where telling a truth was said, and deliberately telling a lie:

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” G. W. Bush

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“. . . it was a reflection of what the U.S. intelligence community believed at the time.” Hillary Clinton

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“Susan stated what the intelligence community believed, rightly or wrongly, at the time.” Hillary Clinton

Finally, Islam’s intelligence services are the most cost efficient organizations in the world because their sources do not cost them a cent.
 

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