IRS scandal. If it started and ended with Lois Lerner do you think the regime would squander so much political capital?
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified Monday in a rare evening hearing, just days after being called a liar in another House proceeding
He defended the IRS against insinuations that it covered up a political targeting scheme by burying inconvenient emails
Koskinen testified that the Treasury Department's inspector general is investigating, but couldn't explain why a six-month 'disaster recovery' backup wasn't tapped to restore her emails after the computer crash
Republicans say he lied in March when he promised to deliver copies of 'all' of former official Lois Lerner's communications even though he knew of a 2011 computer crash that destroyed 28 months' worth
Koskinen complained that it would take $10 to $30 million to upgrade IRS computers to retain all its emails and documents; the agency paid $89 million in bonuses last year
Lerner has been held in Contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about her part in a scheme to use the IRS to hamstring tea party groups
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa subpoenaed White House attorney Jennifer O'Connor on Monday to testify Tuesday morning
O'Connor, former counsel to the then-acting IRS commissioner, was invited to testify but the White House Counsel's office refused to let her testify
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