Posted on 03/04/2014 1:06:01 PM PST by servo1969
Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies openly before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, according to her attorney.
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced Sunday that Lerner will testify at Wednesday’s hearing, but Lerner’s attorney Bill Taylor said that Lerner will seek to continue invoking her Fifth Amendment rights and will also seek a one-week delay of her testimony.
Oversight members are reportedly open to granting Lerner a one-week delay if she petitions for one in person at Wednesday’s hearing. The delay would allow Lerner’s lawyers to continue negotiating for immunity, which they have been doing since at least September.
“I advised the staff that calling Ms. Lerner knowing that she will assert her rights was not only improper but dangerous. Ms. Lerner has been the subject of numerous threats on her life and safety, and on the life and safety of her family. I left with the staff recent evidence of those threats,” said Taylor in a letter to Issa.
But Oversight previously determined that Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights when she made a statement attesting to her innocence at a May 2013 hearing. Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Jason Chaffetz, both Oversight members, said recently that they were considering holding Lerner in contempt of Congress if she does not testify.
Issa said on the subject, ”We want her to come back and answer questions. We’ll see on contempt.”
She was Odumbo’s, ‘Heinrich Himmler’.
Maybe she DID kill JonBenet Ramsey. Maybe she’s the Zodiac killer!
GOWDY: Well, that she’s guilty, and that we should buy a used car over the telephone. Nobody does that. We don’t know what she’s done, so why would you give someone immunity when you have no idea what criminal conduct they’ve engaged in? I don’t know if she killed JonBenet Ramsey!
No! Your plan is MUCH better.
ROTFLOL!
i don’t see why, she didn’t do anything wrong or illegal. /mega-sarc
This would be my hope, and Gowdy does look like the cat who swallowed a canary, with all the confidence in the world as if knowing that something is going to give. If he knows nothing, count me surprised.
We’ll see. Fingers crossed.
True enough, but this isn’t going away any time soon, that’s fr certain. Gowdy is a bull dog.
It's probably more like the lesbian who cut threats into her own skin and tried to blame conservative men.
They still try to trot out that meme when it comes to the Gabrielle Giffords case (erroneous as that claim may be).
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- Hey Obama - Is that a basketball in your Mom Jeans or are you just trying to impress Putin?.
“Her boss noted not “a smidgen of evidence” of anyone doing anything wrong - what is the problem?”
Maybe Obma’s meaning was truthful, but more literal than it sounded. Maybe there is not a smidgen of evidence, but a barrelfull.
Who is gonna kill her anyway?
It is on their website, starts at 9:30 am Eastern.
I see it now. It wasn’t up before. Maybe because Lois was threatening to postpone. I hope it is online, as I don’t have TV. thanks
“put her in solitary confinement in prison and she will be safe!:
Doubt it. It’ll just make it easier for someone, e.g., a paid-off guard or warden, to whack her. As they say in Texas, some people need killin’, and I, for one, don’t care what happens to any of Obama’s evil followers. What the IRS has done to law-abiding citizens is illegal and unforgivable.
Yep. She s between BaRock and a Hardtime Place!
Is Gowdy playing “good cop/bad cop” with Issa?
“Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies openly...”
So take the fifth in public and testify privately. DUH!
You take me back to thoughts of that guy involved in the Clinton days who had all of those medical problems while in jail. I don’t recall his name right now but Arkancide was very much suspected. Lerner doesn’t get any sympathy from me because she was part of death dangers to many people. It is the old goosy gander life she chose.
Here’s an idea - Protective custody! Comfortably, off the grid if she testifies fully and truthfully.
In general population if she doesn’t.
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