Elena Ceaucescu.
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.
Yep - just said the same thing.
I expect that’s why old Democrat Rod Blagojevich still keeps his trap shut on what really went down.
They’d have him shived in prison within 24 hours.
The same snooty nose-in-the-air demeanor Hussein used. Piss on both of them.
How about 501 Chainball lashings (3)?
So a PUBLIC employee, working as a PUBLIC official, with PUBLIC money, affecting members of the PUBLIC, wants her actions to be kept from the PUBLIC?
I think not.
In the kind of country Lois Lerner wants,...
In the kind she wants, she’d be bumped up until
she was secretary of the treasury/fbi.
Who knows where she and others of her ilk would
have ended up if Herself had been elected.
Yes. Susan Rice for sure. Or, as another FReeper calls her, “Dirty Rice”.
Yes. Susan Rice for sure. Or, as another FReeper calls her, “Dirty Rice”.
Yah, .... and?
Remember, I am responding to those who are calling for
her hanging, anyway.
I vote for the former. She represents a destructive treasonous seditious force of democracy that needs purged.
So a Republican candidate’s sealed divorce records are fair game, but this criminal needs her privacy?
“I’m fully convinced after all that Obama’s gov’t did that Democrats will call the trains & showers for Conservatives the next go around if they have the chance and power.”
Without a doubt. The leftists are the same all over the world...Nasty, tyrannical, soulless POS.
I'm not sure.... Maybe from his days in the CIA..(??)
Would be nice to know to what he was referring to...
The “look” in the photo at the top of the thread says it all. Only thing missing are the pince nez spectacles.
Elena Ceaucescu.
We don’t want her dead or suffering bodily harm. We just want her prosecuted for criminal behavior.
I chose the first reliable source that I found. /mild sarcasm
George Herbert Walker Bush: “Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.”
That is a famous 1992 quote by George Herbert Walker Bush to Sarah McLendon, a Texas journalist who Bush had known for years and who was the grand dame of the White House press corps at the time. McLendon had asked Bush: “What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran contra?”
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/03/1199001/-Jeb-Bush-Oliver-North-and-the-Murder-of-CIA-Drug-Smuggler-Barry-Seal-in-1986
Yes, I know. Try again.
I’m agreeing with you. If she told the truth, the Democrats would have her killed.
thanks
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