Exclusive: Woman Who Asked IRS's Lois Lerner Scandal-Breaking Question Details Plant

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22. Speaking as a career civil servant, I must disagree that there's nothing wrong with this. At a

minimum, Ms. Lerner acted out a scenario where she, for reasons not apparent, concealed her agenda that someone in the IRS (perhaps her there is insufficient to make that call) intended to disclose IRS actions relative to organizations attempting to document/confirm their 501c(4) status.

Why?

The honest and transparent course of action (as the President has stated is supposed to be the standard) would have been to provide the information without pretending it was solicited.

All she had to do was volunteer what the IRS had done to organizations dealing with the Tax Exempt Division, affirm that it should not have happened; and, explain what procedures are being implemented to prevent recurrence. She could have admitted (presuming it's true) that the IRS was coming forward because it was documented in an IG report approaching release.

Instead, her manipulation she is caught coordinating a subterfuge that there may be something else not being disclosed. Now we are left to infer that she pursued a hidden agenda and to speculate that we are standing by waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Last observation - this isn't dealing with any national security information requiring protection because unauthorized disclosure would harm the nation. It involves wholly unclassified actions that affect the relationship of we the government to we the people.