[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13085]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME

  (Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GRIFFITH of Virginia. As the saying goes, ``You can fool all of 
the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but 
you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.''
  A year into investigations regarding the IRS improperly targeting 
applications submitted by conservative groups, the IRS claimed to have 
lost Lois Lerner's emails to or from outside agencies or groups for a 
period of more than 2 years as a result of a computer crash--not just 
her computer, but five others as well.
  IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has told us that the hard drives on 
her computer and the others could not be restored and had been 
recycled.
  As a former defense attorney, if a client told me this story, I would 
say: You can tell the judge and the jury whatever you want, but you are 
not fooling anybody, and if that is your story, you are going to jail.

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