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Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois G. Lerner has been at the center of a scandal involving her erased hard drive and missing emails. (Associated Press)

Former IRS official Lois Lerner breaks silence: I’m ‘not sorry for anything I did’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 at a GOP unity breakfast in Manchester, N.H. Paul considered a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016, made a visit to the key early voting state of New Hampshire at the state Republican Party's "Unity Breakfast" following Tuesday's state primary. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Rand Paul: Anthony Weiner should hide his pictures in Lois Lerner’s emails

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in an email to employees that bonuses were an appropriate way for taxpayers to reward the agency that polices them. "I believe that rewarding our high-performing employees is a vital investment for our nation's tax system," he said. (Associated Press)

IRS can’t escape Lerner, tea party scandal at Obamacare hearing

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Issa responds to new round of lost IRS emails: ‘This pattern must stop’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. The IRS says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. But an untold number are gone. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FEULNER: Intolerance on the left

By Ed Feulner

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, strides to the chamber as lawmakers prepare to move on legislation authorizing an election-year lawsuit against President Barack Obama that accuses him of exceeding his powers in enforcing his health care law, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. Democrats have branded the effort a political charade aimed at stirring up Republican voters for the fall congressional elections. They say it's also an effort by top Republicans to mollify conservatives who want Obama to be impeached, something Boehner said Tuesday he has no plans to do. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

PHILLIPS: If you aren’t using your majority …

By Judson Phillips

Illustration on questions over the role of the national archivist in the IRS scandal by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

EPSTEIN: All IRS roads lead to the archivist

By Dan Epstein

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. The IRS says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. But an untold number are gone. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

IRS destruction of Lois Lerner’s hard drive confirmed in court filings

Associated Press

FILE - This March 5, 2014 file photo shows former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge is ordering the IRS to explain _ under oath _ how it lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the tax agency a month to submit the explanation in writing. Sullivan issued the order Thursday as part of a freedom of information lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group. The IRS says it lost the emails in 2011 when Lois Lerner’s computer crashed. At the time, Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

EDITORIAL: The recycled hard-drive coincidence

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Darrell Issa to DOJ: Time to move on IRS case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014, from panel of witnesses including Jennifer O&#8217;Connor of the Office of the White House Counsel who once worked at the IRS, during the committee's hearing on "IRS Obstruction: Lois Lerner&#8217;s missing e-mails." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Issa to DOJ: Time to move on IRS case

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Issa: Disappearing emails miss core of IRS scandal

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. The IRS says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. But an untold number are gone. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Clinton adviser: IRS scandal needs an independent prosecutor, Lois Lerner ‘should have been fired’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Rep. Louie Gohmert touts $1 million bounty on lost IRS emails

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 22, 2013 file photo shows Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington. The IRS says it has lost a trove of emails to and from a central figure in the agency's tea party controversy. The IRS told congressional investigators Friday it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed that year. Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. But an untold number are gone. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: Another ‘smidgen of corruption’ at IRS

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

White House press secretary Josh Earnest pauses during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 25, 2014. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said Wednesday the Republican-controlled House will file an election-year lawsuit accusing President Barack Obama of failing to carry out the laws passed by Congress. In response, Earnest accused congressional Republicans of obstruction and said they had left Obama with little option but to make greater use of his executive authority. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

O’DONNELL: What difference does it make: IRS edition

By Christine O’Donnell

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens to testimony regarding social security and disability benefits, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Four Social Security judges are facing accusations they rubber-stamped claims for disability benefits, approving billions of dollars in payments from the cash-strapped program. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Rep. Darrell Issa: IRS has done little for its reputation over last few days

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joined at left by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member, leads the questioning of Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen as lawmakers continue their probe of whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the IRS, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 23, 2014. The IRS asserts it can't produce emails from seven officials connected to the tea party investigation because of computer crashes, including the emails from Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the center of the investigation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House GOP probe into IRS political targeting gets ‘hostile’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

IRS Flying eMail Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SEKULOW & CLARK: ‘Lost’ IRS emails show missing government credibility

By Jordan Sekulow and Matthew Clark

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week

By Rusty Humphries