Posted on 03/04/2014 1:06:01 PM PST by servo1969
Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies openly before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, according to her attorney.
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced Sunday that Lerner will testify at Wednesday’s hearing, but Lerner’s attorney Bill Taylor said that Lerner will seek to continue invoking her Fifth Amendment rights and will also seek a one-week delay of her testimony.
Oversight members are reportedly open to granting Lerner a one-week delay if she petitions for one in person at Wednesday’s hearing. The delay would allow Lerner’s lawyers to continue negotiating for immunity, which they have been doing since at least September.
“I advised the staff that calling Ms. Lerner knowing that she will assert her rights was not only improper but dangerous. Ms. Lerner has been the subject of numerous threats on her life and safety, and on the life and safety of her family. I left with the staff recent evidence of those threats,” said Taylor in a letter to Issa.
But Oversight previously determined that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights when she made a statement attesting to her innocence at a May 2013 hearing. Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Jason Chaffetz, both Oversight members, said recently that they were considering holding Lerner in contempt of Congress if she does not testify.
Issa said on the subject, ”We want her to come back and answer questions. We’ll see on contempt.”
Liberals always say that
“Her boss noted not “a smidgen of evidence””
Remember how Barry loves to parce words. He meant YET.
So?
She could be Fuddy ed or Vince Fostered.
Eight (8). Not sure what size nails...
If she does not cooperate then find her in Contempt and arrest her then and there.
Why? The Chicago-thug DNC gonna kill her if she tells the truth about misusing gov’t agencies for political reasons?
Perhaps, perhaps not.
The real fear would be from one of the Messiah’s crazy liberal followers.
Or Bernadine and Bill invited her over for dinner.
“She suffered a heart attack when she tried to nail herself in her exploding Mercedes off the coast of Hawaii...”
she can be kept in protective custody in prison
she doesn’t want to get breitbarted.
Is she already a walking dead woman? In gangland Chicago you don’t have to testify to be snuffed... just the possibility that you might... and we know the Eric “Corleone” Holder and his DOJ will NOT offer her witness relocation... well... maybe but she’ll be “relocated” to bottom of Lake Michigan with concrete swimmies.
Maybe the William Colby syndrome?
put her in solitary confinement in prison and she will be safe!
“House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced Sunday that Lerner will testify at Wednesday’s hearing, but Lerner’s attorney Bill Taylor said that Lerner will seek to continue invoking her Fifth Amendment rights and will also seek a one-week delay of her testimony.”
In the unlikely event that Lois Lerner gets cited for contempt of congress, I’m betting the Obama Administration & their Media cronies would let her rot in jail rather than call attention to their political misuse of the IRS.
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