Fireworks Erupt After GOP Rep Tells IRS Boss His Personal Integrity Is in Question

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Fireworks Erupt After GOP Rep Tells IRS Boss His Personal Integrity Is in Question

Breitbart / Breitbart-TV
6/23/2014

Excerpt:

Monday night at a evening congressional hearing on the Internal Revenue Service claims that Lois Lerner's email's were lost due to a computer crash, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) confronted agency commissioner John Koskinen over whether he had contacted the FBI since he claimed he "can not say no crime was committed," and that Lerner had pleaded the Fifth Amendment "to avoid criminal prosecution."

Turner grilled Koskinen demanding to know why the FBI has not be contacted asking, "Will you call the FBI, integrity of your agency is absolutely at stake?"

Turner went on to stress that Koskinen should responsibly handle the situation.

"You should call the FBI. You should call for a special prosecutor," he said.

After Koskinen insisted, "I'm not going to call the FBI," Turner said, "Then that is an issue of your personal integrity because the integrity of this agency and the concerns that American have of it is at stake."

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Video: Trey Gowdy OWNS Irs Commissioner John Koskinen. Trey Gowdy vs Irs Commissioner

Published on Jun 23, 2014 by 'Jim Browski 2.0'

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U.S. archivist: IRS broke the law -- WND, Garth Kant

U.S. archivist: IRS broke the law

Violated Federal Records Act by not reporting Lerner's missing emails

WND
Garth Kant
6/24/2014

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON – David Ferriero, the Archivist of the United States for the National Archives and Records Administration, testified before Congress Tuesday that the IRS “did not follow the law” when it failed to report the loss of two years of Lois Lerner’s emails that investigators had subpoenaed.

Under questioning by Congressman Tim Walberg, R-Mich., the archivist testified before the House Oversight Committee that he believed the IRS fell short of meeting the requirements of the Federal Records Act, which requires agencies to notify the National Archives of disposal or destruction of federal records.

The National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, sent a letter to the IRS on June 17, requesting an investigation into the potentially illegal disposal of Lerner’s emails.

Ferriero testified on Tuesday that NARA was not made aware of Lerner’s hard drive crash that the IRS claims happened on, or around, June 13, 2011.

NARA was also not informed about the IRS’ inability to recover her emails, or that her hard drive was later recycled.

Walberg began by asking Ferriero, “At any time in 2011, through last Monday, did the IRS report any loss of records related to Lois Lerner?”

“No,” he replied.

“Is it fair to say that the IRS broke the Federal Records Act?” the congressman asked.

“They are required, any agency is required to notify us when they realize they have a problem that could be destruction or disposal, unauthorized disposal,” replied the archivist.

Walberg asked, “But they didn’t do that?” and Ferriero responded, “That’s right.”

“Did they break the law?,” asked the congressman.

“I’m not a lawyer,” said the archivist.

“But you administer the Federal Records Act.”

“I do,” replied Ferriero.

Walberg asked, “They didn’t follow it, can we safely assume they broke the law?

“They did not follow the law,” the archivist replied.

In earlier testimony, the woman who directed the IRS’s response to congressional investigators from May to November in 2013 described an agency under the kind of disarray and duress that taxpayers feel when audited by the tax-collecting department.

White House Counsel Jennifer O’Connor was counsel to former Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel for six months.

O’Connor said that when she arrived in May last year she found an overwhelmed agency with staffers complaining that they did not have the resources to deal with all the subpoena requests from Congress.
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