Video: IRS Head Waited 2 Months to Tell Congress, FBI About Lost Emails

weekly standard ^ | 6/23/14 | MICHAEL WARREN

[Nachum]

Republican congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio excoriated the Internal Revenue Service commissioner Monday night in a House hearing looking into the agency's malfeasance regarding conservative non-profit groups. Jordan focused his questioning to when IRS comissioner John Koskinen knew about the loss of critical emails from former official Lois Lerner. Koskinen testified that he discovered a computer hard drive crash lost the Lerner emails in April but did not report this publicly until presenting Congress with a report earlier this month.

Watch the exchange below:

[MeshugeMikey]

close examination....indicates that M is indeed already carrying the O's water

[GOPJ]

John Koskinen knew ...

I'm starting to think John Koskinen's a bad person. Sweet with those he's trying to curry favor with - a criminal-type to those he thinks have less power... There's something about him that says, 'bad'...