Department of Justice officials appear to be going to unusual lengths to prevent a former government attorney from talking to Congress about his time working for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the IRS scandal.

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who heads one of the panel’s subcommittees, asked DOJ Aug. 25, 2014, to make Andrew Strelka available for a transcribed interview, but were told he no longer worked for the department. When the committee asked for Strelka’s subsequent contact information, DOJ declined to provide it.