IRS Chief Eviscerated in 'You Lie!' Moment - GOP Lawmakers Accuse Agency of deliberate deceit to stage cover-up

Garth Kant / WND

WASHINGTON – In perhaps the most explosive exchange yet in the IRS hearings, a key GOP lawmaker essentially accused the head of the IRS of lying to Congress in order to cover up the scandal.

At issue was why IRS Commissioner John Koskinen had waited from April until June before informing Congress that two years of Lois Lerner’s emails had been lost and that her hard drive had crashed.

“I think you were never going to tell us,” House Oversight subcommittee chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, pointedly told Koskinen.

The line of questioning began with Jordan asking,”Why didn’t you tell us in April? Why’d you wait two months?”

The IRS chief said his motive was to first produce all of Lerner’s emails that they did have.

So, Jordan wondered, why did the IRS reveal Lerner’s hard drive had supposedly crashed, causing the loss of two years of emails, to the Senate Finance Committee on June 13?  Why not some other date?

After Koskinen said something to the effect that the occasion seemed right, Jordan countered sharply, “I think it is something different. I think you were never going to tell us.”

Jordan said he believed the IRS was forced to make the revelation after learning the Oversight Committee had obtained an email between Lerner and Justice Department attorney Tony Pilger from 2010, in which they discussed the possibility of criminally prosecuting conservative groups.

Jordan said the IRS learned on June 9 that congressional investigators had obtained that email, “Then, suddenly, four days later, on June 13, you tell the Finance Committee” about Lerner’s missing emails.

“My theory is you were never going to tell us until you got caught,” Jordan admonished the IRS chief.

Jordan said he believed the only reason the IRS revealed the missing emails is because they had to confess that they had lost their version of that crucial email between Pilger and Lerner.

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