Lois Lerner, one of the IRS officials at the center of the scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups, is going to plead the fifth rather than answer to Congress for the actions of the unit she oversaw. It’s one thing to lie to the American people, even if it gets one a bushel full of Pinocchios, but quite another to lie under oath.
Lerner was scheduled to answer questions from the House Oversight committee this Wednesday.
According to the LA Times, which obtained the letter Tuesday, Lerner’s attorney, William W. Taylor 3rd, wrote to committee chairman Darrell Issa to request that Lerner be excused from appearing before the committee. Taylor explained that with the criminal investigation launched by the Department of Justice, Lerner’s appearance would have no purpose other than to “embarrass or burden her.” (Read More)
Apparently the request to be excused didn’t go over very will with Darryl Issa who issued a subpoena for her to appear.
And this is a surprise how? I’d rather have no answers than a bunch of talking points and lies.
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Gubmint officials taking the 5th. I envision jail for some of these syphilitic sewer rats who call themselves public servants. 10 years at a minimum!
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No answers means lying, which means, cover-up, which means, who will be the next lucky person thrown under the bus.
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“We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for”
“Fundamentally transform America”
And of course the best and most recent one:
“The most transparent administration in history”:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283335-obama-this-is-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history
Our government has heinously broken the trust with the governed. The People need to be made whole.
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[…] Lois Lerner has lawyered up, and plans to plead the Fifth. […]
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If she takes the Fifth, she must be guilty of criminal activity. This disqualifies Lois or the IRS from being the enforcer of ObamaTaxCare. She isn’t in a Cabinet level position. BHO gave many department heads, agency heads, legal counsel, and czars immunity from prosecution, so they are all guilty until proven innocent because that is how they treat the proletariat now.
Let us go to a flat tax and dissolve the IRS too! ObamaTaxCare is an undue burden on the population and unworkable. Stop it now!
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The fifth amendment doesn’t protect a witness from incriminating other people,only herself. She should be charged with contempt and thrown in jail, where criminals belong. God bless Trey Gowdy for objecting to letting her off the hook.
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