Yet Another IRS Scandal That Isn't

Kevin Drum writes about Yet Another IRS Scandal That Isn't

"Nothing here sets off alarm bells to me. The key question, I think, is whether the IRS has contemporaneous documents showing that Lerner's computer crashed in 2011 and attempts to recover her hard drive failed. And they do. This is well before the scandal broke, so it would take a pretty Herculean brand of conspiracy theorizing to imagine that this was somehow related to the scandal. Either Lerner deliberately crashed her hard drive because she suspected her actions might prompt an investigation two years later, or else the IRS has faked a bunch of emails from 2011 between Lerner and the IT team trying to recover her hard drive. There's also, as Steve Benen points out, the fact that Congress is mostly concerned with Lerner's behavior in the election year of 2012. If the IRS were involved in a cover-up, faking a hard drive crash that destroyed emails from 2010 and 2011 is a pretty incompetent way of doing it."

It strikes me similar to the Republicans who want Obama to send forces to Iraq to fight ISIS but complain about the 275 troops he's sending to protect the embassy. These are the same people that blame Obama for something in Benghasi having to do with not protecting the embassy.

It's just scandalous noise.