IRS chief denies tipping off White House about missing e-mails

Published June 24, 2014 7:12pm ET



THE WASHINGTON POST — Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen on Monday denied telling the White House about missing e-mails that could serve as evidence in the IRS targeting investigation.

“I didn’t tell anybody,” Koskinen told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “I was advised. I had no one I was going to tell.”

Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) put a finer point on the matter, asking: “Did you cause someone to find out at the White House, or Treasury or your IG?”

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