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Judicial Watch seeks to uncover secret Lois Lerner testimony
american thinker ^ | 12/19/2017 | thomas lifson

Posted on 12/19/2017 9:14:39 AM PST by bitt

The weaponization of the IRS to suppress the organization of conservative nonprofits when the tea party movement was in full bloom, remains an open sore on our democratic political system. The weight of the most feared agency of the federal government was used to suppress a political movement. Despite the payment of millions of taxpayer dollars to groups that were prevented from getting their status approved because their politics were disagreeable to the incumbent president and his supporters in the federal bureaucracy, the damage cannot be undone, and the perpetrators have suffered no judicial consequences. Los Lerner, the point woman who invoked the Fifth Amendment in her testimony before Congress, was able to retire with a fat pension and no jail time. Even worse, the testimony she gave in deposition in a key lawsuit remains sealed by the order of a judge who heard claims of Lerner and her deputy Holly Paz that they had received threats.

Judicial Watch (donate here, please!) thinks that we the people have a right to know what testimony she gave under oath.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs; judicialwatch; jw; jwloislerner; loislerner; tyranny

1 posted on 12/19/2017 9:14:39 AM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; Art in Idaho; ...

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2 posted on 12/19/2017 9:14:58 AM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: bitt

Another failure to prosecute by A.G. Sessions.


3 posted on 12/19/2017 9:24:27 AM PST by Colo9250 (Sessions needs to be fired now!)
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To: Colo9250

bump


4 posted on 12/19/2017 9:24:53 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: Colo9250

“Another failure to prosecute by A.G. Sessions“

You can’t really blame him, being dead.

He’s dead, right?


5 posted on 12/19/2017 9:30:03 AM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: The Antiyuppie
He’s dead, right?

Dead, but walking.

6 posted on 12/19/2017 9:33:04 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: bitt

We The People owe a huge debt to Judicial Watch for their getting to the TRUTH!!!


7 posted on 12/19/2017 9:39:19 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: bitt

I know we don’t like being kept in the dark and not knowing what’s going on behind the scenes. But we know Trump well enough by now to know that he wouldn’t put up with an employee who was non-productive.


8 posted on 12/19/2017 9:43:19 AM PST by ryderann
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To: bitt
Will Judicial Watch need some sort of permission to access her testimony, i.e. , a "Lerner's Permit"?

Rimshot

9 posted on 12/19/2017 9:51:39 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Be careful, Kimmy. Our President is Trump, not Obama!)
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To: bitt

Bttt.

5.56mm


10 posted on 12/19/2017 9:58:34 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; SunkenCiv
"Will Judicial Watch need some sort of permission to access her testimony, i.e. , a "Lerner's Permit"? "

That sounds like something SunkenCiv would say.

Meanwhile, Lerner is in the background laughing at all us dummies....we're paying her $102,600 a year pension.

How many years did you make $100,000+ a year WORKING.(she was already a millionaire)

11 posted on 12/19/2017 10:00:22 AM PST by blam
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To: bitt

Misleading title. JW filed an amicus brief. This is a class action suit filed by NorCal the party


12 posted on 12/19/2017 10:10:21 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster
How did Andy Mc Cabe get a Private hearing

WTF

13 posted on 12/19/2017 10:14:54 AM PST by scooby321 (o even lower)
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To: bitt
lawsuit remains sealed by the order of a judge who heard claims...they had received threats

So to follow the logic of the judge:

the worse the tyrannical abuse and corruption of government officials is, then the bigger the anger of the people, and therefore the more reason the judge should keep the abuse and corruption secret.

Folks, the judge is trolling us serfs.

14 posted on 12/19/2017 10:16:53 AM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: Colo9250

Sessions is and has bee no AWOL


15 posted on 12/19/2017 10:52:16 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: blam; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ..

Apropos of nothing, piano wire.

And you’re right, I’m a little jealous someone got to that pun before I did.


16 posted on 12/19/2017 10:59:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: blam; TruthShallSetYouFree; SunkenCiv

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How many years did you make $100,000+ a year WORKING.(she was already a millionaire)
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Where ELSE but govt can you be ‘vested’ @ 100% bennies after (IIRC, it was some ridiculously small amount of time) 3 weeks ‘working’?

Not even the ‘small govt’ (R)NC is clamoring for rescinding such bennies, let alone means-testing recipients (but damn, they’ll sure glam onto that option for the People’s Ponzi schemes [SS/MediXYZ]).


17 posted on 12/19/2017 11:45:19 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: i_robot73

‘Not even the ‘small govt’ (R)NC is clamoring for rescinding such bennies, let alone means-testing recipients (but damn, they’ll sure glam onto that option for the People’s Ponzi schemes [SS/MediXYZ]).’

Ah, but you are confusing what the dems call “entitlements” vs the hard-earned rewards of those who served the people so faithfully.... the fact that you paid for your ‘entitlements’ seems to be missing from their smoke-filled craniums. /s


18 posted on 12/19/2017 5:23:35 PM PST by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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