saying we re not targeting. shortly after that is when apparently this computer crash happened with lerner and then others at the irs as well. we ve also learned that they failed to fully comply with subpoenas for going on many months, almost up to a year, because the subpoenas had said, look, you must supply all e-mails. instead, this last week the irs has admitted that it was only supplying some of the e-mails deciding on its own volition which were really relevant to the probe that congress was pursuing. now, what is the definition of all ? it seems very straightforward. it s kind of worse than that because in his friday testimony, mr. koskinen is basically using as an excuse all the time they ve spent looking for e-mail and filtering them. but of course it s a lot easier to just gather up the bundle and send it to the hill than to go through them all by the criteria that the irs, not the congressional investigators set. but i think it also should be noted, mr. koskinen said t
what has got paul ryan so exercised? well, for months the house ways & means committee has been investigating claims that irs officials lois lerner and irs staff targeted conservative and tea party affiliated groups before the 2012 election. earlier this week, irs officials told the committee because of the computer crash, a batch of e-mails dating back to 2011 were lost. republicans aren t buying it. committee chairman david camp wrote in a press release, surprise, surprise. a few computers crashed, plot lines in hollywood are more believable than what we re getting from the white house and irs. which brings us back to the house s busy friday. you bury in a 27-page letter to the senate asking for them to conclude the investigation that you ve lost lois lerner s e-mails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. monday, our investigators asked
hearst. lois lerner at the center of the political targeting scandal of carpenter gro conservative groups. he denies there s any cover-up saying a computer crash caused the problem but turns out the hard drive that he says was destroy eed was standard procede but they were not buying his explanation. i don t believe you. i have a long career. that s the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. i don t believe you. that s fine. we can have a disagreement. i m willing to stand on our record and remind it was not buried in 27 pages. most that have 27 pages is exhibits when asked about the custodians we advised you being forthcoming which we knew you know what, congress is investigating let him answer the question. i didn t ask him a question. wow. cover-up of illegal targeting or
groups. he will get little chance after hours of hotted exchange with law makers yesterday. he is set to testify before the house over sight committee on monday. much of yesterday s hearing centered around the irs explanation of how thousands of e-mails vanished in a computer crash and copies were deleted. many of those e-mails are related to lois lerner. the woman in the center of the investigation. erin shock sits on the ways and means committee. and he believes that learner anyhow she broke the law. she immediately pled the fifth and refused to cooperate with us. and when she gave the e-mails
president. you heard congressman garamendi, just now, the president has got to come to us at some point if they want to keep this up. but you talk to democrats, do they regret talking about withdrawing. and they say no. because a lot of this might not have happened if the u.s. hadn t gotten in there in the first place. and you know, it s kind of an amazing argument to make, in hindsight, because back in the day, someone who would have said that would have been totally discounted. and yet, most of america would probably disagree with those guys now. it is interesting, right, what hindsight brings you. let s move on to the tense house committee on the irs. we have lawmakers questioning the irs commissioner about why e-mails longing to lois lerner were lost after a computer crash in 2011, destroying the hard drive. here s part of that. seven years of their personal tax information, in case they re ever audited, and you can t keep six months worth of employees e-mails. being forthc