Related Columns SALT LAKE CITY, June 29, 2013 — Whether the IRS should be able to target groups based solely on their ideological positions is now a party-line issue. The House Oversight Committee decided along party lines yesterday that Lois Lerner’s previous opening statement to the committee nullified her Fifth Amendment waiver. SEE RELATED: Axed IRS chief Steven Miller is the poster child for bad government “Whereas, Ms. Lerner’s self-selected, and entirely voluntary, opening statement constituted a waiver of her Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination because a witness may not testify voluntarily about a subject and then invoke the privilege against...
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