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During Wednesday’s House hearing on the IRS targeting scandal, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, grilled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about Lois Lerner’s emails revealing that she sought to hide information from Congress. >>> Related: Issa on IRS Scandal: Obama Team Wants to ‘Outlast Us’ >>> Related: IRS Emails Show Lois Lerner Suggested Audit of GOP Senator…

Rep. Darrell Issa, the House’s top investigator of the IRS targeting scandal, isn’t holding his breath for those missing Lois Lerner emails. Obama administration officials have done “everything they can to slow down the process,” the California Republican told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview, and have a “cavalier attitude” about producing documents. Americans, he…

During separate appearances on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley,” House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and William Taylor, former IRS official Lois Lerner’s lawyer, offered contrasting thoughts on her role in a computer crash that destroyed two years worth of emails. The IRS notified Congress earlier this month that Lerner,…

New emails obtained by Congress show IRS official Lois Lerner, acting on misdirected correspondence, suggested auditing a Republican senator who has been critical of the Obama administration on a range of issues. The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday obtained emails discussing Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, between Lerner, then head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt organizations…

The House investigation of the IRS targeting scandal has reached a boiling point on Capitol Hill.  Yesterday, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., went head to head with IRS commissioner John Koskinen, challenging his claim that there has been no criminal conduct at the IRS.  

Darrell Issa addressed his most recent summons to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Seeking more information about Lois Lerner’s lost emails, the House Oversight Committee chairman has asked White House counsel Jennifer O’Connor to testify on Tuesday. Issa believes that O’Connor may have known about the missing emails long before lawmakers. Earlier this week, the Internal Revenue…

Lois Lerner’s missing emails are likely gone forever because the Internal Revenue Service destroyed the hard drive she used at the time tea party groups were targeted, according to sources on Capitol Hill. “We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told Politico. Two other sources confirmed Hatch’s…

Rep. Jason Chaffetz was even more perplexed than most Americans when he heard last week that the Internal Revenue Service had lost two years of Lois Lerner’s emails. He had been told “they’re there” by no less than IRS Commissioner John Koskinen himself. Lerner directed the IRS’ tax-exempt division at a time tea-party groups faced…

As congressional investigators ponder how a computer crash caused two years of Lois Lerner’s emails to disappear, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson outlined several questions lawmakers should be asking the Internal Revenue Service. During Lerner’s tenure at the IRS, tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status routinely were subjected to additional scrutiny and delays in their…

Congressional investigators reacted with outrage to the Internal Revenue Service’s claim that it lost two years of Lois Lerner’s emails during a period when the agency targeted tea party groups. “Do they really expect the American people to believe that, after having withheld these emails for a year, they’re just now realizing the most critical…