Posted on 04/20/2017 4:27:08 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Embattled ex-IRS executive Lois Lerner was in federal court last week, asking a judge to seal her forthcoming deposition due to the inflammatory nature of her testimony.
Lerner told the judge that if her actions at the IRS were to become public knowledge, she could face death threats from angry Americans – particularly those on the conservative side of the spectrum.
Lerner is well-known for her role in the IRS’s partisan targeting of Tea Party groups; under the Obama administration, the IRS singled out nonprofit groups with conservative, Tea Party-ish style names for extra scrutiny. Many of their cases lingered in limbo for years while the IRS pretended to review their applications. Ultimately, there came to be no denying that there was a systematic, political effort inside the IRS to make life as difficult as possible for groups seen as threats to Obama’s agenda.
Lerner and Holly Paz are scheduled to testify in a class action lawsuit against the IRS, which is being brought by 428 groups who were affected by the targeting scandal. But before the pair commit their testimony to record, they want assurances that what they say will never be read by the public.
Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm,” their lawyer said in documents to the court.
Reportedly, the women have submitted evidence to the judge that shows they’ve already received threats couched in “graphic, profane, and disturbing language.”
No matter what the judge decides, the request itself has put the IRS scandal back in the headlines, and it comes at a time when Republicans want the Justice Department to re-open the case against Lerner. They say she deliberately obstructed the congressional investigation into the targeting and may have even contributed to it with her snide emails about Republicans.
If Lerner is so terrified about her actions coming to public light, that says it all. If she could reduce her perceived role in all this, she would shout her testimony from the highest mountain. Instead, she has wrapped herself in every layer of secrecy she can find. Either she’s protecting a certain someone higher on the food chain or she’s covering her own behind.
Knowing the Obama administration, we’re guessing it’s a little of both.
We wouldn’t want this “head on a pike” thing to become a meme or something!
Visualization is a powerful tool - dangerous in the wrong hands. ;^)
Hey Lois, turn State’s Evidence, spill the beans (EVERYTHING! - names, dates, places, cross references, documents, hard drives, where the bodies are buried...) on Obama, Hillary, et al. and go into the Witness Protection Program if you are that terrified of the public reaction to your crimes.
I saw a youtube video of her walking her dog when a “reporter” came up beside and asked her to comment on her crimes at the IRS. She freaked out and ran to the nearest house and demanded to be let in. They did not open the door. She was scared youknowwhatless.
Actions have consequences Lois, and it is about time that liberals start having to face those consequences. Don’t worry though, we can arrange a very long security detail for you at one of the federal penitentiaries.
FOIA.....
Guess what Lerner- you thought it would be fun to be a criminal. Too late for regrets now, bitch.
You'd make a lousy Democrat. Or terrorist. They'd kill her to make an example. Example #278021857 in fact. They wouldn't want anyone to think they'd gone soft.
I saw that video. Inspired me to do a bit of digging at the time and I located her street address. It wasn’t very hard to do. She’s real fortunate that we aren’t evil like her antifa comrades.
The bitch belongs in prison.
>>This bitch needs public hanging.
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This is true for her and ALL of them who committed so many crimes against We the People.
One way or the other, justice needs to be served.
No justice, No Peace.
Thank you.
And, you just might make a pretty fair conspiracy
theorist!
Right between the eyes on the steps of the irs.
You nailed it. The Left does not recognize any legal system that thwarts the pursuance of their agenda. The Constitution for them is an archaic construct opposed to the rule of a select group of elites who exists as parasites of the commoners. It is a modern day feudalism of lords and vassals bound by the economic ideology of Marxism.
We have a load of native-born criminals right here in the good ol’ USA.
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Yep! First Lerner, then Koskinen followed by Holder and Lynch! ...It will all lead to the Obama White House inner circle.
She should have worried about public anger before she tried to stifle political speech.
After conviction and sentencing, a tight noose would look just great around her neck. Maybe it would take that smirk of her criminal face. What a traitor to America.
After conviction and sentencing, a tight noose would look just great around her neck. Maybe it would take that smirk of her criminal face. What a traitor to America.
No. Death by hanging on the WDC mall would be good...after conviction, of course.
Bookmark.
If there is justice.
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