Thank you, mr. Chair been spent as long as time has expired. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Commissioner, i want to thank you for your incredible patience and your testimony here today. Mr. Commissioner, what you are seeing is an expected reaction from an overzealous committee that is so desperate to find any type of evidence in any type of fact that may point to a coverup that does not exist. Point to a conspiracy that does not exist and have instead chosen to go after a Public Servant who by all accounts is a model of integrity, honesty and professionalism. I think you are the right person, the right place at the right time to turn around a troubled agency. This committee and this congress should be working with you. Mr. Chairman, i also want to ask unanimous consent to get to articles inserted in todays record, one dated july 20, 2011, New York Times article thats titled three groups denied break by irs are named. And another one by the center for Public Integrity titled irs liberal g
So, our goal has been to be transparent and its been to provide as much information as we can and to try to help this committee get the closure because at some point somebody is going to write a report which i welcomed inside while look at the facts and the recommendations Going Forward. So at this point it is an important issue and we were concerned as we tracked it down and im pleased we were able to find 24,000 emails from that time and i am pleased it is clear that you worked hard and the agency worked hard to restore those emails and im pleased the white house has reduced all of their documents so that there is not an issue of what might be missing would be any email from that timeframe that would be outside of the agency to pick up the internal issues. Any emails that she sent out at the accounts would have been found with the production. So i think this is important. Its gotten caught up in the middle of a political storm which has been ongoing ever since the Affordable Care act
Through, havent begun to rebuild that trust. You said that the work continues, the ongoing work continues. Isnt it true that our friends who draw the conclusion of innocence is likely premature, is that not correct . Are not sure whos i innocent youre worried about. I would like to note that the statistics we shared with this committee and happy to continue to work with you do not show that any donors were audited at a higher rate than people in the public generally. If they were it was a mistake but theres no evidence there was a systematic attempt. Its clear that the individuals and anecdotally theres no doubt about it, but the statistics will show that folks who donated to these groups were audited at a high rate. I want to get to a couple of specific questions. You said you learned about the crash of this hard drive in february of this year . I dont there was a potential problem in february. We did not know and i was not advised there had been a crush in may when her i. T. People d
Lerner destroyed her own computer . Can you rule that out . Theres no evidence that she did. If she had can you rule that out . You can never rule a something you dont know but at this point theyre so evidenced the evidence issue worked very hard to restore her email. Can you answer the questions about hard drive crashes for the other six in toys as well that were involved in the targeting . Similar situation. Can we make sure they were not intentionally we are investigating that right now. Will give you all of the information we are able to determine about Windows Computers crashed, whether in the nose were lost, whats been done with a hard drive should extent they are still available. They will be made available. [inaudible] thank you. Mr. Pascrell is recognized. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me give you 15, 20 seconds im over here. Spent you are behind the photographer. To answer one of the questions you were able to answer before, question, you wanted to correct the record. I starte
The crash itself . I do not know what caused the crash. In fact, my understanding, computers, three to 5 of them crashed as a general Industry Standard and theres no way to know why. Can you rule out what you know are based on these tickets can you rule out that lois lerner destroyed her own computer . Can you rule that out . Theres no evidence that she did. If she had can you rule that out . You can never rule a something you dont know but at this point theyre so evidenced the evidence issue worked very hard to restore her email. Can you answer the questions about hard drive crashes for the other six in toys as well that were involved in the targeting . Similar situation. Can we make sure they were not intentionally we are investigating that right now. Will give you all of the information we are able to determine about Windows Computers crashed, whether in the nose were lost, whats been done with a hard drive should extent they are still available. They will be made available. [inaudi