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[applause] jessica hello, i am Vice President on the board and the event chair. Welcome to everybody. We are excited and honored to have an illustrious panel of investigative journalists today. This is ethics week at the society of professional journalists, which is the National Version of the Deadline Club, which is the new york chapter. There is a lot going on in freedom of information, it is the 50th anniversary of the freedom of information act. One thing our National Society is proud of and we think is important is our Legal Defense fund just gave a 10,000 grant to a Nonprofit Organizatio...

Robbins, legendary new york reporter, now Investigative Reporter and residents here and a finalist for Pulitzer Prize investigative reporting last week, so congratulations. And we have Jessica Hughes men, who is a reporter for the teachers project. Obviously focusing on education. And a lot of fun this last year with the City Department of education, which he will talk about later on. , whoe have Justin Elliott has done amazing work specifically on spending issues at the red cross, which he will talk about tonight as well. I want to thank the panelists for agreeing to do this, i promise it won...

We are live on capitol hill this morning where irs commissioner John Koskinen is set to testify on cybersecurity. Hell be appearing before the Senate Finance committee. Live coverage here on cspan 3. We expect it to start in just a few minutes. Again, waiting for the start of testimony from irs commissioner John Koskinen this morning. Hell be talking about cybersecurity and how the irs protects the information of taxpayers. This is taking place before the Senate Finance committee. Just a couple moments away. While we wait for this to get started, elsewhere on capitol hill today, visits continu...

A couple years ago and misleads us and says no targeting is occurring and then it said it was a few and then it said it was also unprogressive. All of those things had been proven untrue. This committee sent a criminal referral of possible criminal wrongdoing just a month ago the Justice Department and we have heard nothing. You bury any 27 page letter to the senate asking for them to conclude the investigation that youve lost lois lerners emails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. Monday our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we le...

Donors was it harassing conservative donors . Testified that no targeting was occurring. , the then head of exempt organizations of the irs lois lerner admitted that the irs targeted conservative organizations. The irs like the congress and the American People. This Committee Found there is evidence to suggest the irs violated the Constitutional Rights of taxpayers. As of today, the investigation into the irs intentional targeting of americans for their beliefs has been ongoing for over a year. What we have found so far is outrageous. The rs spent over three years responding to top democrat co...