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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 thr ....
A couple years ago and misleads us and says no targeting is occurring and then it said it was a few and then it said it was also unprogressive. All of those things had been proven untrue. This committee sent a criminal referral of possible criminal wrongdoing just a month ago the Justice Department and we have heard nothing. You bury any 27 page letter to the senate asking for them to conclude the investigation that youve lost lois lerners emails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. Monday our investigators asked your agency whether any other hard drives crashed and we learned six others of people investigated involved. You didnt tell us that. We told you on monday. We asked you. And what to do with that information . You told us monday because the ascii of any other hard drives crashed. This is unbelievable. You told us we were going to give us all of her emails and you learned in february about this cra ....
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 ....