"I don't know." "I don't remember." "I'm not familiar with that
detail." "It's not my precise area." "I'm not familiar with that
letter."
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Lois Lerner and her lawyer
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These are quotes from the Internal Revenue Service officials who
testified this week before the House and Senate. That is the authentic
sound of stonewalling, and from the kind of people who run Washington in
the modern age—smooth, highly credentialed and unaccountable. They're
surrounded by legal and employment protections, they know how to parse a
careful response, they know how to blur the essential point of a
question in a blizzard of unconnected factoids. They came across as
people arrogant enough to target Americans for abuse and harassment and
think they'd get away with it.
So what did we learn the past week, and what are the essentials to keep in mind?
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