From the Article: ......Koskinen couldnt explain why a six-month disaster recovery backup wasnt tapped to restore her [Lois Lerner’s] emails after the computer crash. He complained that it would take $10 to $30 million to upgrade IRS computers to retain all its emails and documents; the agency paid $89 million in bonuses last year and has an $1.8 billion IT budget. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa subpoenaed White House attorney Jennifer OConnor on Monday to testify Tuesday morning. OConnor, former counsel to the then-acting IRS commissioner, was invited to testify but the White House Counsels office refused to let her appear. Republicans dropped a hammer on IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during a testy hearing on Monday night over the disappearance of emails tied to the agencys tea party targeting scandal. The emails, covering the period January 2009 to April 2011, belonged to embattled former official Lois Lerner and could shed light on whether an expansive scheme to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny was guided by members of Congress or administration officials outside the IRS. The committee requested all of Lois Lerner’s emails over a year ago, said House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa. And we subpoenaed the emails in August 2013 and again in February 2014. ... You worked to cover up the fact they were missing and only came forward to fess up on a Friday afternoon after you had been caught red-handed. You personally did not cause the targeting, he told Koskinen, referring to the tea party scandal. You personally did not destroy the emails. But by your actions and your deception, you now own this scandal. We have a problem with you, Issa sniped at the front end of a three-hour, 36-minute ordeal, and you have a problem maintaining your credibility......
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:53:23 +0000
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