Post by Sailor on Jun 17, 2014 2:51:16 GMT -8
House Republicans intensified their investigations into the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, just days after the agency said it couldn’t reproduce emails from former agency official Lois Lerner.
Both the House Oversight and Ways and Means committees said they wanted to hear from the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, next week about the agency’s statements that a 2011 computer crash left it unable to recover emails from Lerner’s hard drive.
The Ways and Means panel, led by Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), added that it would seek emails from the White House, the Treasury Department and a string of other executive offices to fill in gaps created by the loss of Lerner’s emails.
The committee said that it interviewed IRS information technology staffers on Monday and that Koskinen was scheduled to testify on June 24. Koskinen should expect questions about whether IRS staffers failed to follow agency rules when it came to Lerner’s emails, when the agency knew the emails couldn’t be recovered and whether the IRS consulted with outside experts on how to retrieve the lost documents, the committee said.
Read more: thehill.com/policy/finance/209530-gop-turns-up-heat-on-irs#ixzz34tLLA5Fh
Those emails are not "totally lost" unless they were deliberately erased not only from the host system / servers but also from the off site backups that are part of every government system. If they are irrecoverable it can only be because of a deliberate series of actions.
"Convenient?" Try "criminal obstruction" instead, the same kind of thing Nixon was accused of over the "18 minute gap."
Both the House Oversight and Ways and Means committees said they wanted to hear from the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, next week about the agency’s statements that a 2011 computer crash left it unable to recover emails from Lerner’s hard drive.
The Ways and Means panel, led by Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), added that it would seek emails from the White House, the Treasury Department and a string of other executive offices to fill in gaps created by the loss of Lerner’s emails.
The committee said that it interviewed IRS information technology staffers on Monday and that Koskinen was scheduled to testify on June 24. Koskinen should expect questions about whether IRS staffers failed to follow agency rules when it came to Lerner’s emails, when the agency knew the emails couldn’t be recovered and whether the IRS consulted with outside experts on how to retrieve the lost documents, the committee said.
Read more: thehill.com/policy/finance/209530-gop-turns-up-heat-on-irs#ixzz34tLLA5Fh
Those emails are not "totally lost" unless they were deliberately erased not only from the host system / servers but also from the off site backups that are part of every government system. If they are irrecoverable it can only be because of a deliberate series of actions.
"Convenient?" Try "criminal obstruction" instead, the same kind of thing Nixon was accused of over the "18 minute gap."
