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Lois Lerner says she faced death threats over IRS tea party targeting
Washington Times ^ | 4/13/2017 | Stephan Dinan

Posted on 04/13/2017 9:04:10 AM PDT by Signalman

Former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court this week that she faces the possibility of death threats if her role in the tax agency’s tea party targeting becomes public, and asked a judge to forever seal her upcoming deposition in a class action lawsuit brought by hundreds of groups that were targeted.

Mr. Lerner and Holly Paz, another figure from the IRS’s tea party targeting, told the judge they’ve already faced “harassment and death threats” before, when the press was intently covering the tea party scandal. “Mss. Lerner and Paz have demonstrated that the public dissemination of their deposition testimony would expose them and their families to harassment and a credible risk of violence and physical harm,” they said in documents submitted by their lawyer to Judge Michael R. Barrett.

Both Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz are among IRS figures who’ve been ordered to be deposed in the class action lawsuit. Ms. Paz already gave one deposition in the case in 2015. The women want that past deposition, and their future testimony, to remain hidden from the public and only available to the lawyers involved in the case. They asked that the seal be permanent. Ms. Lerner has refused to talk in public about her role in the targeting, famously engaging in a showdown with the

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To: Signalman

Oh how scary it is to be a criminal!!


21 posted on 04/13/2017 9:21:08 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Signalman

Right out of page 17 of the liberal liar’s manual: When your crimes have been discovered and you’re facing potential charges, be the victim.

Maybe she can ask for lifetime Secret Service protection, like the creep who ordered her to commit the crimes.


22 posted on 04/13/2017 9:25:39 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: bboop

Well, is she was doing what was RIGHT, she needs to rejoice in her suffering, is what Jesus said.


23 posted on 04/13/2017 9:25:43 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: monkeywrench

That’s the way I read it too.


24 posted on 04/13/2017 9:26:12 AM PDT by Beach333
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To: Signalman

If true (which I doubt), why is she still breathing and collecting a pension?


25 posted on 04/13/2017 9:27:15 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Mad Dawg

/// WHILE I deplore the making of death threats, especially against a woman, ///

Especially?

My exposure to feminism, hypergamy, and misandry and taking the Red Pill, has resulted in me having no particular sympathy for women.

I, for one, unlike TradCons, do not worship the Golden Vagina, nor will I wear a “P*ssy hat” like the SJWs.

She is just more proof that “the Man” still acts just “the Man”, even when “the Man” is a woman.

Good point about the extra-legal responses. When certain parties cut off avenues for recourse and justice, what is left is extra-legal responses — otherwise known as “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind”.


26 posted on 04/13/2017 9:27:27 AM PDT by baltimorepoet
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To: Signalman

I hope she is treated like a pile of stinky chicken poo EVERYWHERE she goes and she should be in prison


27 posted on 04/13/2017 9:28:40 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: Vendome

Speaking of “Mister Lerner”, you do remember that his company got at least one sweetheart contract when Ms. Lerner was illegally protecting BHO & Co.?


28 posted on 04/13/2017 9:29:39 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Sacajaweau

Protect her. Put her in jail....for life.

EXACTLY!


29 posted on 04/13/2017 9:30:52 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Sacajaweau

Yup...a little apartment just outside Kansas City.


30 posted on 04/13/2017 9:32:59 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Signalman

Both of them belong in prison.

And I’m being nice.

5.56mm


31 posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Signalman

Lock her up.

Release the deposition.


32 posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:32 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Signalman

Why is she mot in prison?


33 posted on 04/13/2017 9:36:54 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Trump: What to do now I can't repeal Obamacare? I know, lets start a war with Russia!)
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To: Signalman

She took the Fifth and wants her testimony sealed? Chutzpah is the only word I can think of.


34 posted on 04/13/2017 9:37:57 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Signalman

Lois Lerner should be in jail, and I hope under Trump she will end up at least losing her pension.


35 posted on 04/13/2017 9:40:54 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Signalman; All
"Lois Lerner says
she faced death threats
over IRS tea party targeting...."


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36 posted on 04/13/2017 9:42:01 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Signalman

“Lois Lerner says she faced death threats over IRS tea party targeting”

Cry me a river.


37 posted on 04/13/2017 9:43:16 AM PDT by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
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To: Mad Dawg
Every minute that Lerner and Koskinen do not answer for their crimes is a minute that weakens confidence in the government.

Let us not forget who let these two "off the hook" when we had the opportunity: the Republican controlled Congress!

38 posted on 04/13/2017 9:45:14 AM PDT by JohnG45
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To: All

IRS Scandal-—Targets List:

* Nearly 500 conservative groups targeted
* At least 5 pro-Israel groups targeted
* Constitutional groups were targeted
* Groups critical of Obama administration were targeted
* At least two pro-life groups targeted
* A Texas voting-rights group was targeted
* Conservative activists and businesses were targeted.
* At least one conservative Hispanic group was targeted
* Christian groups were targeted
* Christian churches were targeted, infiltrated and harassed

NOTE: At least 88 IRS agents were involved in the targeting scandal


39 posted on 04/13/2017 9:45:20 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Signalman

Big deal. Truth-tellers on tv and youtube get death-threats daily.

Just an attempt to garner sympathy for horrible abuse of public authority.


40 posted on 04/13/2017 9:45:32 AM PDT by Tigercap
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