Koskinen to Issa: 'I Never Said I Would Provide You Emails We Didn't Have'

cnsnews.com ^ | 6/24/14 | Susan Jones

[ColdOne]

CNSNews.com) - "I said I would provide all the emails. We are providing all the emails. The fact that three years ago, some of them -- not all of them, but some of them -- were not available, I never said I would provide you emails we didn't have," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a Monday evening hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Frustrated Republicans and apologetic Democrats questioned Koskinen about Lois Lerner's vanished emails for several hours, beginning with Committee Chair Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who asked Koskinen if he knew those critical emails were missing when he testified before Issa's committee on March 26 -- but said nothing at the time about problems cropping up.

[Avid Coug]

Let’s simply have the House defund the IRS until the emails are found. Also pass a companion bill that says that the IRS may not assess taxes against any taxpayer based in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, on the basis that the taxpayer is unable to produce emails or other electronically stored data, or printouts thereof, which may or may not relate to the question of whether the tax alleged to be due is in fact due. Further, if the taxpayer refuses to answer any question posed to him or her by the IRS, on the basis that answering might tend to incriminate him/her (Fifth Amendment) all tax related issues relating to such questions asked shall be deemed conclusively resolved in the taxpayer’s favor, without the right of appeal by the U.S. Gov’t.. Let’s just even the playing field. (Oh, and one more detail, the provisions of this exemption for taxpayers shall not apply for the benefit of any employee, agent, attorney, or elected official of the U.S. Government.)

[Bender2]

[4rcane]

All emails doesn’t means all emails. They means all emails except for those that were destroyed

[The_Media_never_lie]

They would look pretty in an orange jump suit perp walk......

[shove_it]

I’ll bet that was his nickname in jr high school. Snide little mfer.

[longfellow]

It is from now on.

[cyn]

"We know that Sonasoft was backing up e-mails. If you have backup of anything and your computer dies what do you do? You get a new computer and load the backup onto it. At most you lose one day’s worth of files that hadn’t been backed up not two year’s worth. Who believes this nonsense?"

Unfortunately, the same people who voted for the obomanation. We need a recount!

[cyn]

The very definition of smarmy there.

Bleeech, yech!!

[ncfool]

Oh Oh the Commissioner has some problems too:

http://www.cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/barbara-boland/dems-fawn-over-irs-commissioner-who-contributed-over-85000-their