The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley
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.”
BS, hold the person in contempt of congress NOW, not next week… , IF she does have any info that could be bad for someone else above her. I doubt she will be here to tell it by next week.
Here she is saying she fears for her life after with holding info about people – as well as herself – breaking the law with the IRS and thinks that it is OK , SCREW HER.
If any one else would lie or defrauds the IRS, they get no breaks at all, not one break. In fact they very well may end up in federal prison for tax evasion or something of that nature for a very long time and also loose everything they own besides, and this bitch thinks that she should have special priveledges. – yea right. She should be locked away for a long time for defrauding the tax payin` american people and given no breaks