Ace:
Ace researcher (I mean he’s an ace at research, not that he’s a researcher for Ace) Morgan Richmond notes this interesting tension between two statements made by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. (Most of this post is actually Richmond’s analysis and writing; I’ve edited it a little, and added stuff near the end.)
Last week, Koskinen testified that it was “my decision” to withhold this information from Congress in February when IRS discovered that Lerner’s emails from 2009-2011 were missing due to crash. he says that at 1:30 here.
He says he didn’t want to tell Congress something that would cause Congress to “leap to conclusions” about the missing emails.
Now, per his recent testimony, he says he knew that the emails were lost (or possibly lost) due to a crash. He further says it was his decision to not tell Congress about this.
But compare this to his testimony to Congress on March 26.Representative Trey Gowdy asked him specifically about emails from 2010 and why they couldn’t be retrieved more quickly:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/8kGQr_lSNWk[/youtube]
Note that the reason Koskinen offers for the impossibility of delivering this information by the end of the week was that he had to screen the emails for “6103 material.” (I guess that’s possibly confidential material that would have to be redacted.)
However, at this point, Koskinen knows that the main reason the emails can’t be delivered is that her computer “crashed” and that the emails can’t be recovered.
Is there any doubt?
No, Koskinen didn’t ‘mislead’ Congress. He outright purposely lied to continue an ongoing criminal conspiracy against the citizens of The United States of America. And he did it like a true sociopath, without ever blinking, even when called a bald-faced liar by Paul Ryan. I would gladly throw the lever on Old Sparky on this enemy of The Republic.
The best part of Koskinen’s testimony was when he said the IRS had to continue the targeting and persecution of conservative groups to prove they hadn’t been targeting and persecuting conservative groups.
I mean, after all, the IRS had already expended so much time and resources on the project, it would be a shame not to finish the job. /sarc
This is a great catch.
I wonder if it was what Paul Ryan had in mind when he called Mr. Koskinen a liar.
The committee that questioned him the other day has sent Mr. Koskinen 18 very specific technological questions for him to answer tonight.
Will he arrive with the answers or with a smarmy promise to get the answers?
Seems he usually sits around waiting for only the sparse facts employees desire him to have, never doing a lick of digging to get real answers.
He could practically change his name to Sgt Schultz.