WASHINGTON – Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS division that singled out conservative groups, is expected to invoke the Fifth Amendment Wednesday when she appears before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox News has learned.
That means Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, probably won't answer any questions on what she knew about IRS agents going after Tea Party-related groups. That also means she probably won't say why she sat on the information for so long before it became public.
Lerner's attorney, William Taylor III, asked committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in a letter if she could skip Wednesday's hearing since she would be pleading the Fifth.
Taylor argued in the letter that forcing Lerner to appear "would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her."
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