Lois Lerner's emails have vanished!

Roger Kimball:

So the IRS suffered a catastrophic hard disk failure and, lo and behold! two years of Lois Lerner’s emails have vanished: poof! Just like that. Imagine. Evidence of those happy days targeting conservative groups, gone. So much for the memoir. Eliana Johnson reports that Dave Camp, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is really steamed. He has even asked the Justice Department to look into it. “The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” he said in a statement. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

Still laughing? Yes, that would be Eric Holder’s Justice Department. Don’t hold your breath, Mr. Camp.

Is it credible that they have no back ups of two years’ worth of emails of a senior staff person—a senior staff person who just happens to be at the center of a huge scandal? What do you think?

I have a couple of other questions. 1. How will The New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, and the rest of the extended White House Public Relations team cover this story? Will they cover it? And 2. what will it take to rouse the public from its supine attitude of hapless acquiescence to this administration’s increasingly brazen lawlessness?

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