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On the recordJune 10, 2014
What kind of conclusion do you think the American people are going to reach when they understand now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had 1.2 million pages of information which contained confidential taxpayer information, you have had it for 4 years, and they are supposed to believe this was never used in any way to target people when we have examples like Catherine Engelbrecht and True the Vote who got 6 visits from the FBI while her application was pending at the Internal Revenue Service, and they are supposed to believe, you know what, we just had it, we didn't know about it, and we gave it back; sorry, no harm no foul? That is what they are supposed to believe?
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

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Jordan questions the credibility of the FBI's handling of confidential information.

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