Top official to plead Fifth Amendment protections after targeting constitutional groups that taught the Bill of Rights

IRS official Lois Lerner who heads the tax exempt division of the IRS will be invoking Fifth Amendment protections under the Bill of Rights to avoid incriminating herself in federal testimony, reports the LA Times. What makes this such a hilarious example of hypocrisy, of course, is the fact that her office specifically targeted non-profits that were teaching the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.


Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/040434_Lois_Lerner_IRS_scandal_Fifth_Amendment.html

It doesn't surprise me.

It's time for a special prosecutor.

Taxation is not unconstitutional. Where's the connection? An IRS official is not allowed to use her rights? Since she's already under investigation, it's not like testifying before Rep. Issa will make it all better.

A Special prosecutor that has no ties to the Obama Administration or the DNC at all. How about Patrick Fitzgerald?

.....Lying to the State, then, also becomes a fortiori morally legitimate. Just as no one is morally required to answer a robber truthfully when he asks if there are any valuables in one's house, so no one can be morally required to answer truthfully similar questions asked by the State, e.g., when filling out income tax returns.
von Mises


that was for Mort!

Good one!

One more time without the Natural News Hyperbole and hysteria.

Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment


By Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
May 21, 2013, 1:17 p.m.



WASHINGTON — A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.


Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening — or why she didn’t disclose it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.

“She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this course,” said a letter by Taylor to committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Vista). The letter, sent Monday, was obtained Tuesday by the Los Angeles Times.

Taylor, a criminal defense attorney from the Washington firm Zuckerman Spaeder, said that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation, and that the House committee has asked Lerner to explain why she provided “false or misleading information” to the committee four times last year.

Since Lerner won’t answer questions, Taylor asked that she be excused from appearing, saying that would “have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.” There was no immediate word whether the committee will grant her request.

According to an inspector general’s report, Lerner found out in June 2011 that some staff in the nonprofits division in Cincinnati had used terms such as “Tea Party” and “Patriots” to select some applications for additional screening of their political activities. She ordered changes.

But neither Lerner nor anyone else at the IRS told Congress, even after repeated queries from several committees, including the House Oversight panel, about whether some groups had been singled out unfairly.


The source for Natural News opinion piece:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-top-irs-official-fifth-amendment-20130521,0,6645565.story

A link to the Inspector-General's Report:

http://documents.latimes.com/inspector-general-report-irs/

I understand its against the law to lie to the FBI when being questioned, so rule #1 is ... don't talk to them at all.

That is a good rule of thumb for the police and the I.R.S.

The I.R.S. is just a collection agency for the the criminal banksters and money lenders anyway who practice fraud and usury and simply get fined for it.