this is a pattern of abuse, and pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that the agency is being impartial. i don t believe you. this is incredible. i have a long career, and that is the first time that anybody has said that you do not believe me. i don t believe you. and the last week the irs revealed in a news dump that more than two years of lois lerner s e-mails were lost in a computer crash, the members of the house ways and means blasted the commissioner john koskinen when he said that backup tapes were only kept for six months, and then there was something more basic seen by the chairman. i don t hear an apology to this committee. i don t believe one is owed. there has not been a single
hour. the irs commissioner is facing tough questioning on capitol hill today after it was revealed the agency lost an unknown number of e-mails wanted in the congressional investigation. the irs says e-mails to and from former top official lois lerner were lost in a computer crash and are not retrievable. the agency has been under fire for allegedly targeting the tea party and other conservative groups. breaking overnight in a surprise move, the house voted to limit the nsa surveillance on americans. the amendment requires the agency to obtain a warrant to search government databases for information on u.s. citizens. it also prohibits surveillance backdoor gadgets on commercial tech products. this was an amendment to a defense bill. the final vote is expected today. married gay couples getting more support from the white house. changes set to be announced today will require most federal agencies to respect married rights even if they live in a state without legalized same-sex mar
they are silent. as a practical matter. and eric holder. i think the president has called for records to be kept all electronically by 2016, like there was some order to all of his agencies. this clearly is not is before that deadline. they say it s a computer crash. why are they loaded on the hard drive in the first place? everybody knows what happened. these things were hidden and gotten rid of. we don t know that. they have to find out the facts. i m just saying the suggestion is there. it doesn t pass the smell test. they know it. the problem that they have the fact that they are focusing on the missing e-mails might means they might not have been able to make the case so far, this is the crux of their argument. she s pleaded the fifth nine times. they might not be able to make sounds to me like they are having trouble making the case.
as the case of the missing e-mails. brand new hour starts now in america s newsroom, i m martha mccam lull. bill: and i m bill hemmer. john koskinen facing to have questions on the hills, angry lawmakers getting fed up with the excuses they re hearing too. the agency claims a computer crash wiped out more than two years of e-mails. lawmakers are not buying it. here is the chairman of the committee, dave camp, says the e-mails are not the only thing missing. what i didn t hear in that was an apology to this committee. i don t think an apology is owed. there are not a single e-mail has been lost since the start of this investigation. every e-mail has been preserved that we have. we have produced or will produce by the end of you don t think the time period between january 2009 and april 2011 is relevant to this investigation? it is a very relevant time frame all right, the letter we received on friday the 13th
bottom of the truth involving the irs controversy and that sonl heating up on capitol hill because of the new revelation that lois lerner s e-mails went missing, because the computer crashed. i pressed jay carney, the outgoing press secretary at the last white house briefing where did the e-mails go, and he pointed out that the irs has turned over 67,000 e-mails involving lois lerner and when they did a search, there were no e-mails between lois lerner and the white house, and obviously, there could have been e-mails between lerner and the hill, and we know now that they have gone missing and a hard drive for her computer has been destroyed and new questions on the hill raised about that, sean. busy day in washington. as always, the recycling of the hard drive is significant, because a according to the obama administrati administration, it is likely the e-mails that may have been recoverable after the computer crash will never be found, a nd