requirement is not the ideal person, not even an appropriate person to investigate these crimes, but megyn, you now know neither is eric holder. this case calls for a true special independent prosecutor who has the ability to issue warrants, to seize materials, to safeguard dock oumts and other information before it goes away and get to the truth. and it s not going to happen. it s not going to happen on this president s watch or eric holder s watch as far as we can tell, but little by little we re finding information. we re finding documents, and each time we find them they come up and have a new discovery. you know, the reason that we discovered that these documents were really gone is from a subpoena to the justice department. lawyers there decided they didn t want these 1.1 million documents that they never should have gotten, that they got from lois lerner in violation of the statute 6103, in other words, a law that was broken. they wanted rid of them so they
but fact that she was even thinking she could send this to exam, she s a tax-exempt specialist, but sending it over to an audit was way over the top. bill: why did this become public? well, it became public because there were some e-mails that were released, and senator grassley although it could have been deemed private information he signed what s called a 6103 waiver, that s the privacy waiver, and that allowed the house committee to produce the senator grassley e-mail. bill: so this is 2012. was that the same period they were looking for e-mails that were apparently lost, destroyed and the hard drives are no longer available? i think they started finding those again right after in 12 because it was 09 through april 11 that were the big losses which is when the whole scandal p developed. bill: because you start to wonder now, and the mind reels, and you wonder, well, what other sort of communications went out? and on this particular e-mail,
requirement is not the ideal person, not even an appropriate person to investigate these es, neither is eric holder. this case calls for a true special independent prosecutor who has the ability to issue warrants, to seize materials, to safeguard dock oumts and other information before it goes away and get to the truth. and it s not going to happen. it s not going to happen on this president s watch or eric holder s watch as far as we can tell, but little by little we re finding information. we re finding documents, and each time we find them they come up and have a new discovery. you know, the reason that we discovered that these documents were really gone is from a subpoena to the justice department. lawyers there decided they didn t want these 1.1 million documents that they never should have gotten, that they got from lois lerner in violation of the statute 6103, in other words, a law that was broken. they wanted rid of them so they
e-mails and had not complied with the subpoena in gathering all of her e-mails that is what i meant. i would like to know what you meant. they didn t know they were missing in the months you were there. and you appreciated you told us in great detail about the process that you went through, but of correspondence course it was a process you determined you wanted to go through. we issued a subpoena and 6103 doesn t take the place of gathering that. ways and means was to receive them without redaction. i believe i understand
counselor and perform a number of different things, a piece of which was helping to respond to the four different congressnal committees and the iig and othes who were seeking materials. i played a role that was a liazon to him and garther t materials as fast as possible and do the same for your committee to figure out how to get priorties to them as quickly as possible. and by that it was identifying the employees s material they wanted to see and using search terms to identify the documents at interest. search tools were necessary instead of turning over wholesale is because there is internal revenue code 6103 and it is a criminal statute passed