Posted on 06/20/2014 9:39:29 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
In his first Congressional appearance since news of the lost Lois Lerner emails, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen was alternately attacked by Republicans and praised by Democrats who apologized to him for his treatment and called the investigation an endless conspiracy theory by Republicans.
Under oath before the House Ways and Means Committee, Koskinen restated what Congress had been told privately: that emails of Lerner and six other relevant IRS officials have been irretrievably lost because of crashes of their hard drives and servers.
Koskinen defended not telling Congress in numerous previous appearances about the email losses. In those appearances, he assured Congress that all the Lerner emails would be provided. Koskinen says his testimony at that time wasnt dishonest because he was going to provide all the emails we had. He also said that he wasnt fully aware of the crashed hard drives and the status of the lost emails until April or May.
Koskinen argued that he has been honest and transparent and that the fuss today is a result of us providing you a full accounting.
Why should anyone believe you? asked Kevin Brady (R-Texas).
I want to apologize to you for the way youve been treated this morning, said Rep. Elijah Cummings (R-Maryland) to Koskinen. Cummings then offered Koskinen time to say whatever he wanted.
(Excerpt) Read more at sharylattkisson.com ...
“I heard 8 of 11 hard drives failed. Coincidentally, those eight were the ones that belonged to the highest ranking people in the IRS.”
To paraphrase Auric Goldfinger, “One hard drive crash is happenstance. Two is coincidence. More is enemy action.”
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/about/members.htm
Cummings is not on this committee. That was the brilliant, articulate and erudite John Lewis.
“..he already knew the damaging evidence was gone.”
That’s my point. Whoever the hell is legally in charge and has the duty and authority to prosecute the crimes of this regime will NOT do it.
An oldie but a goodie.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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