Discuss as:  IRS official to invoke Fifth Amendment at hearing
A top IRS official scheduled to testify Wednesday before the
House Oversight committee has notified Congress that she will
invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions.  Lois
Lerner, head of the IRS unit which handled tax-exempt
organizations, won't answer questions about what she knows about
the improper screening of conservative groups or about why she
repeatedly failed to tell Congress that such targeting was going
on, according to a letter from her lawyer, William W. Taylor
3rd.   The news of Lerner's intention to invoke the Fifth
Amendment was first reported Tuesday by the L.A. Times.  Some
members of Congress have called for Lerner to be relieved of her
responsibilities. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) alleged that she gave
false and misleading testimony to Congress.  Her lawyer wrote,
"She has not committed any crime or made any misrepresentation,
but under the circumstances she has no choice but to take this
course."  A spokesman fo