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By David Edwards
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 15:07 EST
Fox News host Jon Scott on Wednesday advised former IRS official Lois Lerner that she should give up her constitutional rights and testify before Congress if she wanted death against her life to stop.
During a House Oversight Hearing on Wednesday, Lerner invoked her right under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and refused to answer Chairman Darrell Issas (R-CA) questions about the IRS targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.
Lerners attorney had previously asked the committee not to call her to testify, citing numerous death threats.
She felt she was getting death threats, that she felt concerned about her safety, US News and World Reports David Catanese told Scott on Wednesday.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/fox-news-warns-irs-official-testify-if-you-want-the-death-threats-to-stop/
tanyev
(42,567 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)to dye their hair black, would Murdoch give up and finally allow his news people to start telling the truth?
Murdoch would have to hire news people...the corporate whores he currently has working for him wouldn't know the truth if they were hit by a bullet train!
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)to wear pants, too.
That would really twist his nickers.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)he just said it on one of their tv broadcasts. He also didn't "warn her"
I can see why if youre getting death threats, why you wouldnt want to open yourself up to more scrutiny, Scott admitted. But at the same time, it would seem that answering some of the questions might cause some of these people who are so angry to ease up.
Fox news people are dumbasses, creeps, assholes, and every other nasty thing, but this article really sucks in giving out the correct information.