Posted on 05/21/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by 11th Commandment
Edited on 05/21/2013 12:48:43 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.
Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
DOCUMENT: The Inspector General’s report on the IRS
“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, R-Calif. The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.
You bet.
GREAT research, maggie.
You’re absolutely the best.
“...Enhanced interrogation techniques are called for.....”
Yep! Send her to Guantanamo and let those super spooks down there work her on the water board for a while. She’ll sing like a canary right after she pisses her pants.
God bless and keep you, dearest.
Hey, he’s a lesser evil. No prooooooblemmmmm....
AMEN!
JUST ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS AND LET HER PLEAD THE 5TH!
yes, that is why they should FIRE her and quit paying her. They should have court martialed him immediately and quit paying him too . . . but then I agree with others here, water board the bitch . . . I’ll help fetch the buckets water.
God bless you too.
Yep. We want the top dog or no deal.
However, this might be a good thing. The FBI has her in their sights, and can offer her immunity in exchange for testimony about what she really knows.
++++++++++++
Are we talking about Eric Holder’s FBI? I wouldn’t count on that organization doing anything.
Amen
Simply invoking the right against self-incrimination is a tacit admission that you will be judged to have committed some criminal act if you honestly answer the question.
Thank you so much!
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening
I don’t understand how her lawyer can assert that she has committed no crime. Charge her ass!
“At any time did you directly inform the President of these violations of the Constitution and breaking of law.”
“I plead the 5th.”
Gravy.
EXACTLY! Put her out in the public view,,have her and her husband scrutinized the way she knew the conservative groups were being scrutinized. Do it Issa!
Funny how “lesser evils” never win elections against the “Greatest Evil” in our history....
But we are free to make any inferences from it we like. I infer that this woman should not only not be given a big promotion, she should go to jail.
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