Yeah, right.
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.
Correct.
The 5th applies to criminal prosecution.
Go back and read your Miranda Rights. They are not rights. They are not rights but the 5th is. We have always had the right to remain silent under the Constitution. If the police show up and arrest me for bank robbery I know something is seriously wrong at the get go because I didn’t do it. I am absolutely the only one who knows that. If it gets to that point I plead the 5th and want a lawyer.
Miranda says anything you say can and WILL be used against you. Not may be or may exonerate you. It says will be used against you. If the prosecution has done their work properly your silence will not save you. Saying something that could be interpreted to help them even if you are innocent would help their case even if wrong.
And I am no bleeding heart lib by any stretch of the imagination.
And based on what I have read illegal things have happened and there is the carrot of a pardon if you keep your mouth shut.
That’s what the Bill of Rights is for. I hope Justice is served for violation of law and their sworn oaths ,but.... I’m not holding my breath.
Answer: So does that mean Bush was president for the last 5 years or that Obama is so useless he cannot control his underlings?
The House needs to find someone who reports to her who did not give money to Obama in 2012 and cut a deal with that person.
I was simply responding to the incorrect statement that “There is no 5th amendment protection in a civil proceeding.” A witness can plead the 5th in a civil proceeding at the risk that the judge or jury will infer or presume guilt.
I wish that were true. But any movement is what it’s members make it. And the liars now control the movement. The rest of us who believe in what it used to be are powerless because lesser evils rule the day.
This woman accepts a salary and benefits paid for by the taxpayers of this country. If she will not answer for the harm that occurred on her watch then we need to stay on this until her grubby fingers are removed from our pockets. Let her find a different employer to mistreat. I’m sick of these “civil servants” taking our money while they poke us in the eye and laugh all the way to the bank.
oh so nowwwwww they’re cool with the constitution
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I’m going to go home, open up a fifth and put on Beethoven’s Fifth.
Also- tagline.
Exactly. Just bombard her with questions she will refuse to answer under her 5th Amendment right.
Yeah, right.
I don’t know if we should allow this. After all, the Founders couldn’t possibly have known about IRS abuses when they wrote the Fifth Amendment. And anyway it only applies to muskets and the militia, not broadcast television and the Internet...
She can plea the 5th BUT there is no way she should be able to continue her job as head of IRS Obama Care.
The GOPe liars are currently running the show, or Obama would be toast.
Yes but we must support/vote for/filly back the liars or we hate America and love Obama or something...
Personally I hope for change.
Amen!
“BOTH, Bitch is IRS, DOESN’T DESERVE ANY “Mercy”!”
If they hadn’t been caught, it would still be happening. Absolutely, no mercy to her - did she give any mercy to those conservatives she was roasting? No, so she gets none.
BUMP!
I think it's too early for that. If she's guilty, she should go down as well.
There have to be a lot of people down the food chain who are only guilty of following orders and who would testify from where the orders came. Even though it will take time, start little and work your way up. Keep the heat on and people will be bound to get desperate and make mistakes.
There's a lot going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of and the the GOP is only becoming aware of.
No problem with hauling these people up before Congress and getting them to plead the 5th in person, but if there is a criminal investigation going on elsewhere, no need to grant immunity at this point.
There's nowhere for the guilty to hide. They'll be found out and brought to justice, even if it takes years and another administration.
We have to fight on the local level first, to displace the liberal Republicans.
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