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sufrommich

(22,871 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:13 AM Mar 2014

Fireworks on Capitol Hill After Former IRS Official Won't Testify

A tense scene ensued on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after a former IRS official targeted by Republicans in an investigation into the agency's targeting of conservative groups refused to testify before a House committee.

Lois Lerner, the former director of exempt organizations for the IRS, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights -- as she had during a previous hearing last year on the IRS's inapprorpriate scrutiny of conservative groups seeking non-profit status -- during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing.Issa had suggested this past weekend that Lerner had, in fact, decided to offer testimony. Her attorneys disputed Issa's characterization, and she ended up invoking her Fifth Amendment privileges on Wednesday.

Issa quickly gaveled the hearing shut over the impassioned objections of Rep. Elijah Cummings, Md., the top Democrat on the committee who was barred from asking questions or participating in the hearing in any official capacity.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fireworks-capitol-hill-after-former-irs-official-wont-testify-n44866

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Fireworks on Capitol Hill After Former IRS Official Won't Testify (Original Post) sufrommich Mar 2014 OP

Issa-hole underpants Mar 2014 #1

Republicans trash the democratic process ... MindMover Mar 2014 #2

Thanks for adding that. From what I can gather,Issa peppered her sufrommich Mar 2014 #3

They are so flagrant in their disdain for the democratic process. WhiteTara Mar 2014 #4

underpants

(182,826 posts)

1. Issa-hole

Reply to sufrommich (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:25 AM

Mar 2014

First of all there is nothing there. Second, this was a staged event by Issa but he still needs to give the other side the option to at least speak.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)

2. Republicans trash the democratic process ...

Reply to sufrommich (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:32 AM

Mar 2014

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)

3. Thanks for adding that. From what I can gather,Issa peppered her

Reply to MindMover (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 11:41 AM

Mar 2014

with leading "questions" after she took the fifth and then refused to allow any other questions. On CNN they're reporting that Issa claimed Lerner's lawyer claimed she would not plead the fifth,but her lawyer denies ever making that claim. Once again,Issa gets caught in a lie.

WhiteTara

(29,718 posts)

4. They are so flagrant in their disdain for the democratic process.

Reply to sufrommich (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 01:36 PM

Mar 2014

Issa should be in jail and I"m happy to hear he has a challenger.

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