"Her dog ate her homework, DUMBAZZES!!!.. ROFL!!"
Posted on 06/20/2014 12:41:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Really? Not even just a little bit, just to say, “Sorry about the whole not-retaining-our-records-when-we-demand-that-you-do” sort of thing? IRS Commissioner John Koskinen asserted that the IRS owes no apologies for the curious epidemic of hard-drive failures among officials involved in the targeting scheme, whose e-mails Congress has spent the last year-plus demanding from the IRS:
CAMP: What I didn’t hear in that was an apology to this committee.
KOSKINEN: I don’t think an apology is owed. There are not a single e-mail has been lost since the start of this investigation. Every e-mail has been preserved that we have. WE have produced or will produce by the end of this –
CAMP: You don’t think the time period between January 2009 and April 2011 is relevant to this investigation?
Note well that smirk on Koskinen’s face as he proclaims this, too. We’ll get back to the qualifier Koskinen uses in a moment. Katie Pavlich followed the hearing and reported the exchange on Twitter:
"What I didn't hear in that statement is an apology to this Committee" -Chairman Camp #IRS
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 20, 2014
"I don't think an apology is owed" -Koskinen #IRS. Wow.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) June 20, 2014
Fox had more:
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Friday there is no need for his agency to apologize amid accusations of a cover-up in the targeting scandal of conservative groups after claims surfaced that ex-official Lois Lerner’s hard drive was destroyed and emails from several other officials also have gone missing. …
Committee Republicans now say that the IRS may have known about this for months, and that the agency may have lost emails from another six employees.
“The IRS in charge of hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ information. And you’re now saying your technology system was so poor that years’ worth of emails are forever unrecoverable?” Camp charged. “How does that put anyone at ease? How far would the excuse ‘I lost it’ get with the IRS for an average American trying to file their yearly taxes who may have lost a few receipts.”
Read Noah’s post for a litany of reasons why the IRS owes the American public an apology. They may owe one to Orrin Hatch as well. He met with Koskinen on Monday to discuss the sudden revelation of the hard-drive crash in Lois Lerner’s computer, and now says that Koskinen never mentioned during that conversation that six other drives had been similarly destroyed:
Hatch fired off a letter to Koskinen on Thursday voicing concerns that he met with him on Monday, yet the commissioner and his staff did not mention that emails from six other employees might be missing.
Koskinen’s still not sure how many e-mails are missing, either:
The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service refused to apologize to Congress for losing e-mails related to its targeting of conservative groups, saying it’s still attempting to recover the data and it’s too soon to know how many e-mails are missing.
“I don’t think an apology is owed,” Commissioner John Koskinen told the House Ways and Means Committee. “Every e-mail has been preserved that we have.”
Translation: We’ve dutifully saved everything that we, er, saved. Does that fly in a tax audit? I’d bet that smirk wouldn’t. Don’t be surprised if this declaration becomes a hot topic in Monday’s Oversight hearing.
“The Audacity, the utter audacity.”
Yes, the republicans are showing an incredibe amount of audacity to question the king, our lord and savior, the IRS.
The king is being very magnanimous by not asking the republicans for an apology for wasting the king’s time.
“”I don’t think an apology is owed” -Koskinen”
what a wonderful gesture by the King.
Just following the orders from Obozo and playing cover thy A$$ so lies are in order.
So their basic approach is, if you’re gonna cheat and lie, you might as well go all out.
IF we won the senate and IF we won the presidency, how many years and will anybody have the balls the clean the sewer we call D.C. out? Will anybody have the guts to file criminal charges against these people? Will anyone at least send them packing down the road to poverty thu legal fees if nothing else???
ANYBODY?
ANYBODY?
Nope, didn’t think so. Just going to be more of the same.
"Her dog ate her homework, DUMBAZZES!!!.. ROFL!!"
They don’t owe us an apology. . . they owe us several long prison terms. Such corruption can not go unpunished!
Stop the cash flow and let the river run dry. They are getting a bit too big for their britches. If they attack take names and put a name and face to whoever is involved and let others know. They will to like that one bit. Most of all make sure the truth is exposed.
This twit has inspired a new tagline.
Yes, there are MANY lying sacks of excrement in the government. My question would be, do we have to wait till we have a Pubbie in the White Hut, for these lying sacks of excrement to take up residence in the cross bar hotel? One of the biggest pieces of excrement, Holder, will never do it. Also, I have this sick feeling inside, that thinks the Hildebeast will be the next lying sack of excrement to inhabit the White Hut. If that happens, and I think it is likely, the lying sacks of excrement will continue to lie and get away with it.
In other words, they were not even going to reveal that info on their own.
Even over at DU they are skeptical. About 50% of them are not buying the excuses.
This arrogant, dismissive ass of a “public servant” should be exiled. He doesn’t deserve to be allowed in the USA. We are infected with these subhuman scumbags.
Now I see why Obama got rid of Miller, the previous IRS commissioner. Obama needed this spinning liar in place to protect him from being compared to Nixon and thus impeached.
Tomorrow the sun will rise & back to work, just another day of lying for their boss.
...probably get a big bonus and atta boy from Barack.
When are people going to go to jail?
Koskinen needs to be slapped with a charge of perjury. NOW!!
I would think it would take a special kind of person to be an IRS agent: one who loves to inflict pain on others. Actually the ERA agents are the same way.
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