The
Internal Revenue Service’s John Koskinen didn’t exactly walk
whistling into today’s hearing and dump a bag full of supposedly
missing correspondence on the desk, but we seem to be inching in
that direction. Not long ago, he insisted that emails belonging to
Lois Lerner, the former official at the center of the political
targeting scandal, went bye-by along with her computer hard drive.
The backup tapes were gone, too, long-since recycled.
Maybe not. Last week, IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas
Kane said that the
tax collection agency’s computer woes were worse than
originally reported (to an improbable degree), but he
added that maybe some backups of Lerner’s emails exist after
all.
Today, in further
testimony, Koskinen confirmed that the IRS Inspector General
has “backup tapes that were recycled but may be recoverable.” He
does insist that he has “no information as to whether there is
anything usable on those tapes.” But this is a bit of a shift from
early insistence that the tapes were recycled, and their contents
gone forever.
He was also openly annoyed that his questioners on the committee
publicly revealed the existence and examination of the backup
tapes.
The smart money is on a few of those emails making their way
into the light of day.
You can see the key part of Koskinen’s testimony below.
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