mr. joseph kraft wrote a letter back and said this was not going on. as recently as a few weeks ago, we questioned the acting commissioner and still he said this was not going on for it when we finally pinned him down on the questions, he basically said, "well, it actually was going on but you did not ask the question the right way." basically, they had lawyered up. i would like to walk you through a little bit of what has happened since then. it has happened as a result of the fact that across the nation, each one of you and each one of the groups in all of our districts have contacted their congressman and his committee has begun one year ago to act on this suspicion. what this committee has been subjected to is really a conspiracy of arrogance. when this committee swears in witnesses, we expect them to tell the truth. when you write a letter to the irs commissioner and he writes you a letter back and says it is not happening, you have to operate on some premise of truth. this committee has been ubjected to untrue statement sunday have been put in wr