Koskinen to Issa: ‘I Never Said I Would Provide You Emails We Didn’t Have’ (IRS arrogance)

Cybercast News Service ^ | June 24, 2014 - 5:23 AM | Susan Jones

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“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. […]

Later in the hearing, Koskinen was unable to remember when in April—beginning, middle or end—he was told that some of Lerner’s emails were missing. Nor could he remember who told him, he testified. …

[savedbygrace]

Looks like I was way off with my “educated guess” of the number of PCs covered. Whoa, 3,000.

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Earlier in his career, Koskinen served as Administrative Assistant to Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.) from 1969–73, was Legislative Assistant to Mayor John Lindsay of New York City from 1968–69, served as Assistant to the Deputy Executive Director of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (the "Kerner Commission") from 1967–68, practiced law with the firm of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher from 1966–67 and clerked for Judge David Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, from 1965-66. -- Wikipedia

Curious that the first thing you hear about Koskinen is that he's a troubleshooter and turnaround specialist from the private sector, but the deeper you dig the more political hack positions he's had.

He was also at OMB under Clinton and in charge of the Y2K Commission. Later Deputy Mayor for DC. Brought in by Bush to run Freddy Mac after the meltdown, with most Republicans in the Senate opposed to his confirmation.

No tax administration experience. Headed US Soccer and funded at soccer stadium for Duke U (not as impressive as it sounds, though -- some high schools have more impressive fields). At Lucianne.com somebody called him "the master of the angelic smirk."

[don-o]

I try. Credit needs given where credit is due. You, I believe alone, had this one right.