Posted on 06/20/2014 11:32:53 AM PDT by Starman417
Note well the smirk on the face of the IRS Commissioner during this hearing. That smirk was on display all hearing long especially when he said no apology was owed to anyone because, well, they have lost anything in the last few months.
Can we use that excuse during an audit?
Today's hearing about the IRS scandal told us one thing for sure. The IRS and this Administration is hiding something.
The IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has long tried to do the "I know nutting!" song and dance by asserting that he only found out about the missing emails a few months ago. One question would be even if this was true why would it take him a few months to let the investigating committee's know?
But it's not true:
“You already knew in March they were not retrievable,” [Rep. Kevin] Brady alleged. “A, you didn’t inform the congressional investigation. B, two months later you told us you would provide all the emails without limitations. And you knew you didn’t have them.”“By March, I did not know they were irretrievable,” Koskinen countered. Brady interrupted and reminded the commissioner that he had just testified under oath that he was aware of the problems associated with the emails in March.
“Mr. Commissioner, why, at this point, why should anyone believe you?” Brady asked.
“The IRS denied for two years targeting of Americans based on their political beliefs. That wasn’t the truth. They said it was a few rogue agents in Cincinnati. That wasn’t the truth. You said you were targeting liberal organizations. That wasn’t the truth. Then you assured us you would provide us all the emails in May and that wasn’t the truth. And today, you are telling us out of thousands of IRS computers, the one that lost the emails was a person of interest in an ongoing congressional investigation. And that is not the truth either.”
Rep. Paul Ryan blasted Koskinen over the lies:
Isn't quite coincidental that this epidemic of hard-drive failures only occurred on computers that principal players in this scandal used?
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Does Paul Ryan have the authority to put people in jail? Really?
“I don’t think an apology is owed” -IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
I don’t think we should pay our taxes and we should tar and feather this jerk.
Maybe these Republicans can't invoke the law because they're so stupid, they don't KNOW the law.
After all let's be fair here, incompetence is NOT limited to Liberal politicians.
It's endemic by now and it's the real cancer eating away at our society.
In the past it was assumed only low level and low earning workers were incompetent... But NOW ... OH NO... it is everywhere!
The fix is in and these clowns are just playing to their constituents.
Ryan’s heated exchange will look good in campaign commercials.
IT persons don't do so well in prison and I doubt they qualify for country club sentences.
Somewhere there is a techie sweating bullets.
Obama and the Democrats are LAW-Less because Republican “leaders” are BALL-LESS!!
He also knows that the MEDIA will NOT go after him!! He was DESPICABLE!!!
BINGO!!! the Republicans think that Democrats PLAY BY THE RULES!! What a horrible JOKE of a country we live in now.
OMG!!! Would you PLEASE put that entire post on ALL OBAMA THREADS??? PLEASE????
Ditto
Yep, use it or lose it.
My supposed Tea Party congressman, Steve Southerland (FL-2) told me that Obama’s appointment of some hacks to the NLRB a couple years ago without Senate consent was just a policy dispute. No big deal.
If instead, he told me that Obama certainly did commit a high crime, an impeachable offense, but there wasn't support in the House to impeach him, I would have accepted his honesty and openness.
I can take bad news, but I am getting very tired of being lied to.
The day after that, Wilkins sent a revised set of guidelines to Lois Lerner for the tax-exempt unit to use when applying extra scrutiny. To this day, no explanation for this meeting has been made public, even though records show that Wilkins spent hours at the White House with “POTUS” as his host.
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