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| IRS chief: I’ve never spoken to Lois Lerner |
| 2016-05-24 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Commissioner John Koskinen has declined to testify in his own defense at a congressional hearing Tuesday, but insisted in a statement that his bungling of a subpoena doesn’t rise to the level of "treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors" needed for him to be impeached. The Judiciary Committee hearing is being viewed by some House Republicans as the precursor to impeachment, with the House’s top investigator saying Mr. Koskinen defied a congressional subpoena that demanded all of former IRS senior executive Lois G. Lerner’s emails be preserved as part of the investigation into tea party targeting. But Mr. Koskinen, who said his schedule is too crowded for him to be able to appear on Tuesday, said the allegations against him are "unwarranted," and no matter what, they don’t rise to the level of impeachment. In a point-by-point refutation of the four counts of potential impeachment, Mr. Koskinen says he "acted in good faith" and was telling the truth as best he knew it when he told Congress all of the emails were preserved. He said he only became aware later that emails were lost after Ms. Lerner’s computer hard drive crashed and backup tapes stored at an IRS facility in West Virginia were erased. "The IRS made great efforts to produce all available Lerner emails, conducting a broad search at substantial expense. The breadth of the IRS’s efforts illustrates the good faith underlying the promise to comply with the committee’s request," he said in his statement. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Defenestration offence? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2016-05-24 20:40 |
| #4 Quite probably he had indeed not spoken personally with Ms Lermer. The top boss usually doesn't -- that's why middle management was invented. But as soon ss she became a problem he should have been informed of all the particulars as they developed. And he most certainly should have found out who authorized the erasures -- or didn't notice that the hard drive and all those backups had been destroyed against explicit orders -- and immediately and publicly made horrible examples of them. Being senior management means dishing out necessary punishments as well as rewards and setting direction. If it was deliberate, that would constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. If accidental, that's negligence or gross incompetence -- a firing offence. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-24 19:45 |
| #3 Bend this guy over. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-05-24 11:03 |
| #2 This arrogant liar needs to be removed as an example |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-05-24 08:42 |
| #1 Going for "Plausible Deniability" I suppose. Good luck. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2016-05-24 07:48 |