Lois Lerner gave opening statement, then clammed up in 2013 hearing on IRS discrimination against conservative applications for tax-exempt status, and it didn't work, Sen. Lankford notes at Fauci's inquisition.
The former NIAID director refused to answer lawmaker questions throughout the hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, despite having a presidential pardon that covered his work during the pandemic.
Is a social media "like" an adoption of the comment? If the government lawyer whose job is to defend the FBI against wrongful-termination claims has publicly signaled she agrees with the people siung the agency, taxpayers have good reason to ask whether the Bureau is getting a real defense, or whether the case is compromised before it starts.