Jim Jordan

The taxpayer might say we are giving $20,000 bonus, paying people over $200,000 and it takes a special law to do this, are we getting our money is worth here? They lost Lois Lerner's emails.

Maybe you should switch. Maybe you need to hire a few more people at a lower salary who are actually going to do the job and would not lose Lois Lerner's emails.

The American people do not think this is fun, they want the truth.

We know that was not true either.

We now know that was not accurate.

It is not about fun; it is not about amusement.

We do want a special prosecutor. Every single Republican voted for it.

The creation of an under secretary for Diplomatic Security. In fact, sir, in our executive summary, we said one clear and overarching recommendation that's crucial to the successful and sustainable implementation of all of the…

They're not going to implement it. They're not going to implement it.

So we have the Overseas Security Policy Board created after Americans were killed in Beirut. That wasn't followed. We have a recommendation from Madeleine Albright, the lady you protected, that says we need to create an under secretary…

Frankly, I share your belief. I mean, when Secretary Clinton gets to appoint the co-chairs of the board...

We need more good guys here.

Are you familiar with the fact that the guys on the ground in Benghazi repeatedly asked for additional security and were repeatedly denied?

I trust them implicitly. They have the best perspective.

Did you get good evaluations? High reviews? Strong reviews?

So, changing gears a little bit then, one of the other issues that we were very nervous about, brought to our attention a few months ago, was the fact that the Internal Revenue Service gave 21 disks of information to the FBI regarding the…

I want to know, what were those critical areas? Were you denied access to oversight work in critical areas?

I am particularly concerned about one issue that has been a focus of the Oversight Committee and some other Committees, and that is the targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of people exercising their First Amendment rights.

It's those four key facts that underscore and warrant and cry out for a special prosecutor.

His response shocked us all. He said, we learned when it was reported in the press that they had been lost.

Every single Republican, 26 Democrats supported a resolution saying what the Justice Department is doing in their investigation here warrants an outside special counsel.

Now, when you have the ACLU, and the Tea Party, and home schoolers and Harley riders all against the same thing, you know that they--this is unbelievable.

So this idea that it's wrong, it's false, it is just simply not borne out by the facts.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, but, more importantly, for all the work they have done in helping let the American people know what the Internal Revenue Service was up to, what they did, how they harassed people and…

Did the Department of Justice instruct you not to share information with Congress?