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Attorney: Lerner vilified by GOP out of convenience
The attorney for embattled former IRS official Lois Lerner said that Republicans are denigrating an innocent woman for purely partisan purposes.In an exclusive interview with Candy Crowley, attorney William Taylor said it's "convenient" for the GOP to suggest that Lerner's computer crash means something "nefarious" was going on. He said, "This is election-year politics. It's convenient to have a demon that they can create and point to." Taylor said Lerner walked into her office one day and her computer screen was blue. Her hard drive had crashed. He said, "The truth is this was one of those things that happened. At the time she did everything she could to retrieve it. She reported it right away. And that's all there is to it." Taylor said the reason he advised his client to plead the Fifth Amendment was because "there was no pretense that this would be a fair process" in the investigation led by Rep. Darrell Issa. Issa said that Taylor "has said things that are not correct, or disingenuous or outright lied a number of times, it's been shown by e-mails. (An) attorney trying to get his client off the hook after flubbing and taking the fifth certainly will say and do a lot of things. But they're not held accountable." Taylor maintained his client's innocence on all fronts, insisting that from the start "(Republicans') only purpose to have her there is to vilify her." He said, "She has to go on living her life. She's been made to be a villain in a way that's very, very unfair." Posted by: ryuge 2014-06-30 |
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