Statement of Former IRS Official Lois Lerner’s lawyer William Taylor

Gretawire ^ | May 8, 2014 | Greta Van Susteren

[don-o]

Lerner’s lawyer below says she did NOT waive her 5th Amendment rights. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law says she did waive them.

Bottom line — on close questions — you steer your client to a SAFE path. That is the role of a lawyer – to protect your client. As a former criminal defense attorney, I know the SAFE path would have been to say ZERO before the Committee (except to assert the 5th) and then go outside and say whatever you want to the cameras. The same would have been achieved with the safe route (and more!) except she would not have this contempt issue. This was a big blunder. He is now scrambling with statements and letters and looking for lawyers to opine that Lerner did not waive her 5th Amendment right — but he never, never, never have steered his client into this position. Why would you steer your client into this mess, whether in the end the client wins or not?

STATEMENT BY WILLIAM W. TAYLOR, III

[Popman]

——I wish you were wrong.-——

I do as well....but I have pulled the knife out my back far too many times buried deep by the spineless GOPe

I would be shocked speechless if even one person does a nanosecond behind bars....