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Paul Ryan Tears Into IRS Commissioner: 'Nobody Believes You'
I can't get enough this Video. Try to set opinions of Paul Ryan and Loyalty to Party Affiliations aside and enjoy watching the IRS getting slammed.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tore into IRS commissioner John Koskinen on Friday, saying he doesn't believe that many of ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's emails were lost.
Ryan told Koskinen during his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee that it was "misleading" to say the emails had been lost.
"That’s your problem. Nobody believes you," Ryan said.
Ryan went on to say claims that the emails were lost are "incredible" and "unbelievable."
"You can reach into the lives of hardworking taxpayers, and with a phone call, an email or a letter, you can turn their lives upside down," Paul said. "You ask taxpayers to hand us seven years of their personal information in case they're ever audited, and you can't keep six months of employee emails?"
Koskinen later said it was the "first time" in his "long career" that anyone had said they didn't believe him.
"I don't believe you," Ryan shot back.
The AP reported earlier on Lerner's emails:
Congressional investigators have shown that IRS officials in Washington were closely involved in the handling of tea party applications, many of which languished for more than a year without action. But so far, they have not publicly produced evidence that anyone outside the agency directed the targeting or even knew about it.
If anyone outside the agency was involved, investigators were hoping for clues in Lerner's emails.
The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 83 other IRS employees.
But an untold number are gone. Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/paul-ryan-irs_n_5515442.html
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) tore into IRS commissioner John Koskinen on Friday, saying he doesn't believe that many of ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's emails were lost.
Ryan told Koskinen during his testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee that it was "misleading" to say the emails had been lost.
"That’s your problem. Nobody believes you," Ryan said.
Ryan went on to say claims that the emails were lost are "incredible" and "unbelievable."
"You can reach into the lives of hardworking taxpayers, and with a phone call, an email or a letter, you can turn their lives upside down," Paul said. "You ask taxpayers to hand us seven years of their personal information in case they're ever audited, and you can't keep six months of employee emails?"
Koskinen later said it was the "first time" in his "long career" that anyone had said they didn't believe him.
"I don't believe you," Ryan shot back.
The AP reported earlier on Lerner's emails:
Congressional investigators have shown that IRS officials in Washington were closely involved in the handling of tea party applications, many of which languished for more than a year without action. But so far, they have not publicly produced evidence that anyone outside the agency directed the targeting or even knew about it.
If anyone outside the agency was involved, investigators were hoping for clues in Lerner's emails.
The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 83 other IRS employees.
But an untold number are gone. Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/paul-ryan-irs_n_5515442.html
I figure their response would be a complete audit.
I’m amazed (not really) that some Congressmen are acting like the IRS is the victim and it is a conspiracy against them.
Lerner pleads the 5th ( I always questioned why someone with nothing to hide would plead the 5th), her computer just happens to “Crash” along with 5 others, the IRS did not disclose the other Computer “Crashes” until they were asked, but we are supposed to believe it is a conspiracy against them.
I wander what the IRS’s response would be if they audited someone and they told the Auditor ‘ I'm not going to answer your questions because I don't want to incriminate myself and besides, my computer crashed causing me to lose my records”. My guess, their response would be, “I don’t believe you.”
Lerner pleads the 5th ( I always questioned why someone with nothing to hide would plead the 5th), her computer just happens to “Crash” along with 5 others, the IRS did not disclose the other Computer “Crashes” until they were asked, but we are supposed to believe it is a conspiracy against them.
I wander what the IRS’s response would be if they audited someone and they told the Auditor ‘ I'm not going to answer your questions because I don't want to incriminate myself and besides, my computer crashed causing me to lose my records”. My guess, their response would be, “I don’t believe you.”
Miserable, lying bunch. No way did they "lose" emails and by no means would that ever be an excuse that a civilian could get away with.
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