IRS Scoundrels Want Evidence of Their Crimes Hidden Forever

Via Wombat-socho's "In The Mailbox: 11.20.17": Scumbag Lois Lerner Terrified Her Testimony About Targeting Conservatives Could be Made Public

The first order of business today should be to unseal the testimony of this vile leftwing hatchet-face. If, as she claims, that she did nothing wrong, why the alleged fear of your victims?

Former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner told a federal court last week that members of her family, including “young children,” face death threats and a real risk of physical harm if her explanation of the tea party targeting scandal becomes public.
Ms. Lerner and Holly Paz, her deputy at the IRS, filed documents in court Thursday saying tapes and transcripts of depositions they gave in a court case this year must remain sealed in perpetuity, or else they could spur an enraged public to retaliate.
“Whenever Mss. Lerner and Paz have been in the media spotlight, they have faced death threats and harassment,” attorneys for the two women argued.
Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz gave taped depositions in a class-action lawsuit brought by tea party groups demanding answers and compensation for having been subjected to illegal targeting for their political beliefs.
The government settled the class-action lawsuit in Ohio and another tea party challenge in the District of Columbia in two agreements last month, admitting to the illegal behavior. The Ohio settlement also called for the government to pay $3.5 million to the tea party groups, according to one of the plaintiffs.
Ms. Lerner came in for particular criticism, with the government admitting she not only didn’t stop the targeting — contradicting the Obama administration’s claims — but also hid it from her superiors in Washington.
During the course of the Ohio case, the tea party groups filed thousands of pages of documents, but testimony from Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz was left out of the public record because of their earlier request for privacy.
Now Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz say that since the case has been settled, there is no reason for their testimony to ever become public.
“The voluminous record of harassment and physical threats to Mss. Lerner and Paz and their families during the pendency of this litigation provides a compelling reason to seal the materials,” the women’s attorneys said.
They particularly blamed Mark Meckler, a tea party leader whose organization helped fund the class-action lawsuit, saying he helped stoke the threats against them by calling IRS agents “criminal thugs.”

 Pretty scary looking group, huh?

So this is how the IRS/Tea Party scandal ends. The IRS suddenly got the urge to settle the complaints against them for $3.5 million, while including a few liberal groups so they could claim impartiality, and the malfactors are asking to courts to hide their testimony forever.

As usual the perfesser at the TaxProf Blog, covers it in more detail.

Did this cost the GOP the 2012 presidential election, as some allege? Probably not, like the Watergate break in did not cost the Democrats the 1972 election. In both cases, the malefactors cheated not because they needed to, but because they thought they could get away with it with impunity. We need to know what Lois Lerner and Holly Paz said about this under oath.