Thread: VIDEO: A furious Paul Ryan tears a defiant IRS commissioner to shreds

VIDEO: A furious Paul Ryan tears a defiant IRS commissioner to shreds



Image Credit: Clash Published by: Robert Laurie on Friday June 20th, 2014




'I don't believe you. This isincredible! I don't believe you!'
This morning, Congressman Paul Ryan had a chance to address IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The results were brutally explosive, with a visibly outraged Ryan taking Koskinen to the woodshed over Lois Lerner's "lost" emails.
For his part, the Commissioner remained defiant, maintaining a self-satisfied smile through Ryan's blistering barrage, before eventually firing back with some arrogant gobbledygook about how no one has ever questioned his honesty.
“You are the Internal Revenue Service," Ryan said. "You can reach into the lives of hard-working taxpayers and - with a phone call, an email, or a letter - you can turn their lives upside down. You ask taxpayers to hand us seven years of their personal tax information in case they’re ever audited. ...And you can’ keep six months’ worth of employee emails!?”
...This is not being forthcoming. This is being misleadingagain. This is a pattern of abuse - a pattern of behavior - that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial. ...I don't believe you. This is incredible."
"I have a long career," an obviously angry Koskinen replied. "That is the first time anybody has said they do not believe me."
Ryan fired back. "I don't believe you."
"That's fine," Koskinen said. "We can have a disagreement. I'm willing to stand on our record."



While it's nice to see that someone is fired up over this scandal, Koskinen's hubris is deeply troubling. If we're watching another "all talk no action" response from the GOP - if Koskinen does not face the repercussions of his failed oversight - then this is all just smoke and mirrors.
It's great to see a little fire behind their eyes, but it's time for the Republicans to back up their bluster.
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Audience GASPS As IRS Commissioner Admits Missing Lois Lerner Hard Drive Was Trashed (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, June 20, 2014, 11:28 AM

There were audible gasps in the room today when IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress that Lerner’s hard drive was tossed out. Koskinen testified before the House Ways and Means Committee today on the IRS conservative targeting scandal.

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AUDIENCE GASPS As IRS Commissioner Admits Missing Lois Lerner Hard Drive Was Trashed...

Paul Ryan to IRS Commissioner: “Nobody Believes You”

Angry exchange during hearing on lost emails

by Paul Joseph Watson | June 20, 2014

During an extraordinary exchange between Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen today, the Congressman asserted that the IRS’s explanation for Lois Lerner’s lost emails was unbelievable.



Demanding an apology to the American taxpayers, Ryan asserted the IRS had abused its power, before suggesting that Koskinen was lying about the circumstances behind the IRS’ claim that Lois Lerner’s emails were lost as a result of hard drive crashes.
“I don’t believe it, that’s your problem, nobody believes you,” said Ryan, adding that everything the IRS has claimed about the scandal has since proven untrue and that the agency had hidden the hard drive crash until asked about it by lawmakers on Monday.
Things then began to get testy as Ryan asked why the IRS had promised to turn over the emails before trotting out the “hard drive crash” explanation.
“You are the Internal Revenue Service, you can reach into the lives of hard working taxpayers and with a phone call, an email or a letter you can turn their lives upside down. You ask taxpayers to have seven years of their personal tax information in case they’re ever audited and you can’t keep six months worth of employee emails,” charged Ryan.
When Koskinen began reeling off a list of excuses Ryan interrupted him, prompting Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to state, “Will you let him answer the question,” to which Ryan snapped back, “I didn’t ask him a question!” The disruption costs Ryan at least a minute of his allotted time.
In another clip, there is an audible gasp as Koskinen claims that the hard drives were trashed and recycled.

The controversy surrounding the lost emails is a continuation of a scandal which began last year when it emerged that conservative groups applying for tax exempt status were being unfairly scrutinized by the IRS based on their names or political themes.

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Bombshell: We Know The Whereabouts of Lost IRS Emails …

Mac Slavo 12 hours ago
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A Congressional inquiry into the targeting of Tea Party and Conservative organizations by the IRS has revealed that thousands of emails from IRS head Lois Lerner and at least six of her subordinates have been lost to history after the hard drive which stored them was reportedly thrown away. The loss of the emails makes it nearly impossible to track down and verify what actually took place and whether or not the Obama administration was directly involved in the harassment of independent groups that didn’t agree with the President’s political platform.

Without the emails their is no accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference on the day he took office in January of 2009.
The President’s past statements run contrary to the events playing out on Capitol Hill today, where the IRS has claimed that the emails have been “lost forever.”
Congressman Darrell Issa pointed out the ridiculousness of the claims saying that such records could only disappear because of deliberate destruction.

“Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”

It turns out that Senator Darrell Issa is right. Records like these don’t just disappear without a trace.
We know the whereabouts of the lost IRS emails and they could likely be accessed and shown to the American public within 24 hours.
It turns out that there just so happens to be a redundant set of digital records available in a facility capable of holding some septillion pages of information (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pages of text) that has been actively aggregating and storing digital data for years.
Access to any of those records can be had with a simple directive from the President of the United States.
The facility where the records are stored, along with the private emails, text messages, google searches and 20 trillion domestic phone calls since 2001 is owned and operated by America’s National Security Agency which, among other things, is responsible for the monitoring of American citizens and storing any and all digital interactions captured on private and public telecommunications lines. The NSA’s most advanced intelligence monitoring facility is located at Camp Williams and is called the “Utah Data Center.”

If the emails ever existed, whether they were deliberately wiped or accidentally lost, the National Security Agency undoubtedly has a digital record of them.

Intelligence officials and law enforcement refer to the phenomenon as “digital permanence” and what it means is that there exists a record of every digital interaction taking place over the internet somewhere. So, even if you happen to lose a hard drive or purposefully click that delete button, you’d be in luck. The National Security Agency has a copy of it because they have been effectively collecting all data sent over telecommunications lines in the United States since at least 2001.

The mind-boggling amount of data being collected at this and other facilities seems like something out of a science fiction movie, but according to award-winning mathematician and NSA whistleblower William Binney it is very real – and it’s been happening for quite some time. And just in case you think they’re collecting “meta-data” such the the sender, receiver and subject line of an email exclusively, according to Binney, they are also collecting the content of the communication as well. That means they know what you texted, said on a phone call, or wrote in an email.

Binney explained that the government is taking the position that it can gather and use any informationabout American citizens living on U.S. soil if it comes from:

Any service provider … any third party … any commercial company – like a telecom or internet service provider, libraries, medical companies – holding data about anyone, any U.S. citizen or anyone else.

The government is gathering everything, including content.
Binney explained – as he has many times before – that the government is storing everything, and creating a searchable database … to be used whenever it wants, for any purpose it wants (even just going after someone it doesn’t like).

Given this revelation from someone who understands the inner workings of NSA signals intelligence and how they collect data, it’s clear that despite the IRS losing the emails in question, there exist exact replicas of them at the NSA.
It should only be a matter of time now before President Obama officially requests that the NSA turn over these records so that he can prove to the American public once and for all that neither he nor those in his administration had any knowledge or influence over the IRS targeting of political enemies.

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[Watch] Most Corrupt, Deceitful IRS in History – Fed Up Congressman Unloads on IRS Commissioner

Posted on 21 June, 2014 by Rick Wells


Rep Kevin Brady (R-TX) has been through enough with the arrogant IRS commissioner and his underlings as well as his predecessor. Brady lists the false promises and failures to comply or inform Congress, the lawlessness and the total lack of credibility that his agency has.
Brady asks the question that is on everybody’s mind, “Mr. Commissioner, at this point, why should anyone believe you.”
As his time expires, the frustrated Rep Brady tells it like he sees it. He tells Commissioner Koskinen that “this is the most corrupt and deceitful IRS in the history.”



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