Yet backup tapes containing numerous emails had been erased by IRS workers in March of 2014. Koskinen says he didn’t learn about that until later, and reiterated Wednesday he believed his June 2014 statement was true at the time. Last week, members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has pushed the impeachment drive, agreed to Wednesday's hearing after dropping plans to force an immediate House impeachment vote. In May 2013, the IRS conceded that during the 2010 and 2012 elections, it subjected conservative groups seeking tax exemptions to excessively harsh examinations. In June 2014, the IRS told Congress that it lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her hard drive crashed in 2011.

Source: Fox News September 21, 2016 14:39 UTC