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GOP esp House incapble of governing (passing bills is in itself evil"?) so fake action by continally re-ginning up IRS Lerner and Bengazi (after failing to repeal obamacare 40X plus times) 6/14  hard drive lost in 2011?

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“I did not know that her emails were missing and unrecoverable or that her computer crashed,” said the lawyer who specializes in responding to congressional investigations, a few moment after Issa called her a “hostile witness.”

Issa forced O’Connor to appear, sending the White House a subpoena Monday evening. IRS chief counsel William Wilkins had told the panel that she was one of several people supervising the collection of IRS documents relating to the committee’s requests for material.

(<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/darrell-issa-republicans-irs-108201.html" target="_blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Also on POLITICO: GOP vs. IRS chief: Part 2</a>)

The hearing is the third since the IRS nearly two weeks ago revealed news of the loss of about two years of emails. Lerner is the former head of the tax-exempt unit at the IRS whose admission of the added scrutiny given to tea party groups seeking tax exemptions set off the scandal in May 2013.

News of the email loss has given new life to the controversy.

“The idea that the IRS just didn’t notice [Lerner’s missing emails] is without credibility,” Issa said.

O’Connor advised the acting IRS commissioner on the tea party targeting scandal from May 2013 to November 2013. She told the committee that when she arrived at the agency, the IRS already had a team of agents working on gathering Lerner’s emails for congressional investigators.

(<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/darrell-issa-irs-hearing-lois-lerner-108183.html" target="_blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Also on POLITICO: Issa: Lerner 'hiding something'</a>)

They used a method of using “relevant search terms” to pull Lerner’s emails for the committee to “gather these materials as quickly as possible,” she said. Issa would later that summer ask for all the emails, but O’Connor said then-Acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, as far as she knew, wanted to finish up the method they were using to pull emails, then return to all the emails after that process was complete.

The former partner at D.C.’s WilmerHale also defended herself when Issa called her “hostile” — saying “I am not hostile.”

Issa later corrected the record saying he meant to call her a “noncooperative witness” because it required a subpoena to get her to appear before the committee.

“This is simply a witness that refused to cooperate without subpoena,” he said.

(<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/2014-primary-election-june-24-questions-108211.html" target="_blank" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Also on POLITICO: Primary day: The 6 big questions</a>)

The White House had balked at Issa’s original invitation for O’Connor, and calling her testimony was irrelevant because the discovery of the missing Lerner emails came several months after she left.

Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings of Maryland said Issa was grasping to link the scandal to the White House.

Read more: <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/jennifer-occonor-ex-irs-lawyer-testify-email-108236.html#ixzz35fhTfHBF" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/jennifer-occonor-ex-irs-lawyer-testify-email-108236.html#ixzz35fhTfHBF</a>

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