Posted on 02/26/2014 12:37:09 PM PST by Nachum
The attorney for Lois Lerner, a central figure in the IRS scandal, signaled Wednesday that his client will not comply with a request to testify on Capitol Hill next week.
Attorney William Taylor said Lerner, who resigned last year as the agency’s tax-exempt organizations chief, will return and testify only if compelled by a federal court or if given immunity for her testimony.
Taylor stated his position in a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He was responding to a letter Tuesday from Issa saying, in part, that Lerner’s testimony remains “critical to the committee’s investigation.”
The committee continues to investigate the IRS' targeting of Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations trying to get tax-exempt status.
Despite Taylor's letter, staffers with the committee told Fox News they still expect Lerner to show up on March 5. Unclear is whether she would answer any questions.
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It appears she is having her way with this hapless committee. I doubt they’ll ever extract anything useful from her.
Pubbies are missing yet another opportunity to crack down on the agency abuses and make an example of those who violate the rights of citizens. But that’s how the Pubbie roll. They always look away from the gift horse. Pathetic.
Arrest her and bring her in and let her repeat over and over and over that she refuses to answer.
I believe Obama and his enablers including Holder are counting on a stalemate. For me Issa has been a no-go for some reason.
Issa and Boehner the backstabbers would never do that because they approve of what the IRS is doing. For Lerner this ends right here, and she gets to go on and collect her pension.
Sorry Jim, but until we shake the RINOs out of the tree we’re screwed.
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Why in the hell are they still “requesting” her to appear? Subpoena her!
Even a brain dead LIV can figure out what this comment means:
GUILTY!
The dirty little secret is the GOPe “leadership” approves of what the IRS has been doing.
Indict Issa and Cummings for ABETTING THIS.
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No kidding.
An admission by her attorney that his client knows things that would put her in prison. It can’t be interpreted any other way.
She has enough on the record - just form a Grand Jury.
The time to put up or shut up is NOW, Issa. Subpoena the b!tch and let the chips fall where they may.
Subpoena her and if she doesn’t show,take away her 6 figure pension.
Do that to all of the crooks.
Waterboard her right on the House floor!
You NEVER give immunity unless you know exactly what she is going to say and then you get it in writing what she promises to tell and that immunity hinges on her saying exactly that.
Political targeting and harassment by the IRS is one of the most serious crimes ever committed by our government. They engaged in voter suppression during the 2012 election and on a large scale as SOP WITHIN THE AGENCY UNDER OBAMA. Nixon's Watergate PALES IN COMPARISON TO MANIPULATING THE OUTCOME OF THE 2012 ELECTION BY SUPPRESSING THE REPUBLICAN VOTE (TEA PARTY)!!!!
The fact that no one has gone to jail over this makes everyone involved complicit in these crimes.
‘Not even a smidgen of corruption’: Obama downplays IRS, other scandals
Dispatch badass US Marshall Raylan Givens to drag her skinny ass in.
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