Today, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to testify at a hearing Monday about Lois Lerner’s “lost” emails.
On Friday, the IRS disclosed to Congress that it had lost many Lois Lerner emails dated from January 2009 to April 2011 due to a previously undisclosed computer crash in 2011.
In a letter to Koskinen today, Chairman of the Oversight Committee Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that the Federal Records Act (FRA) was passed by Congress to avoid this very scenario.
“The FRA requires agencies to make and preserve records of agency decisions, policies, and essential transactions, and to take steps to safeguard against the loss of agency records,” wrote Issa.
The hearing will take place next Monday at 7pm.
Lerner, who took the Fifth when called to testify to Congress, is a former IRS manager and a key figure in the investigation into alleged targeting of conservative groups by the IRS.
What the IRS Commissioner said about the Lerner emails in March
Questions for the IRS about the lost Lois Lerner emails
