WASHINGTON — The threat was addressed to all the witnesses, but it was obvious the congressman had just one in mind, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner.
Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., loudly threatened in his opening statement that if witnesses refused to testify, it would leave Congress no option but to appoint a special prosecutor to look into abuse by the IRS.
"There will be hell to pay if that's the route we choose to go down," he warned.
But that's just what Lerner did, refusing to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by invoking her constitutional right against self-incrimination.
Lerner said she would not answer questions because the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the IRS scandal.
Lerner has blamed abusive IRS practices on low-level employees in the Cincinnati office. But IRS sources told National Review, "From the outset, Internal Revenue Service lawyers based in Washington, D.C., provided important guidance on the handling of tea-party groups' applications for tax-exempt status."
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