Posted on 05/21/2013 2:17:32 PM PDT by Nachum
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
But Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House oversight committee where Lerner was to appear, has issued a subpoena to Lerner anyway.
The subpoena was delivered after the committee received the letter from Lerner's attorney, a committee aide said.
Her attorney, William Taylor, said in a letter obtained by National Journal, that Lerner had "not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation" but that she would decline to testify at a House hearing on Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
Let me get this straight. She is going to plead the fifth tomorrow in front
of a committee, who has oversight over the IRS and then she will go
back to office at the IRS, where she can continue to shred documents,
wipeout hard drives etc?
Something is very wrong with this picture.
Seems logical to me the Admin needs no more leaks. Why wouldn’t you not want her to do exactly that. However if comes to task the hard drive could still be scanned.
She likes the fifth but detests the rest...typical.
I hope they’re busy compiling the list of questions and they have her on the stand all day.
Here at Free Republic we already know the nexus o with Obama
Embattled IRS official Lois Lerners husbands law firm has strong Obama connections
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021332/posts
She must appear and America can see her on TV invoking The Fifth X number of times. Fine by me.
No doubt.
The problem with our society now days is that we don’t like to embarrass criminals.
To words to this lady: Scooter Libby.
Videotape her responses and plaster them in 2014 political ads.
When Clinton was impeached, how many subordinates of his were involved? Seems like it was just him lying. There sure seem to be a lot of Democrat subordinates involved in Obama’s mess. Why, it almost seems like they were conspiring.
The Obama administration is destroying the Democrat party.
Ignorant as to how the 5th Amendment applies here.
Atually she has to plea the 5th to every question. If she answers any of them she has to answer all of them.
Barry must have told her if she talks she d1es.
Has she returned to the U.S.? She had gone to Canada late last week.
Asylum denied?
LIV are the 47% that don’t pay taxes
They don’t pay taxes, they aren’t very interested in good government practices, and integrity and ethics don’t matter much as long as the freebees keep coming.
Any serious threat to Obama is a direct threat to their gravy train.
The left has purchased the votes of too many millions. For this reason these scandals won’t go very far unless the press does a complete 180. I pray for just that.
Help please. Should know this but it is getting confusing. Lois Lerner is the person who disclosed the targeting and made the apology, right? Did she also say to someone, when questioned, that she wasn’t good at math, that she was an attorney, or was that someone else?
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