EDITORIAL: IRS: ‘The dog ate the emails’

WASHINGTON TIMES

Rose Mary Woods, President Nixon’s personal secretary, took the blame four decades ago for a mysterious 18-minute gap in an audio tape-recording of what was going on in the Oval Office during the Watergate investigation. Now the IRS wants us to believe that information technology has scarcely advanced from the days of reel-to-reel tape-recordings. The dog ate Lois Lerner’s emails.

For three years, Congress has been investigating Mrs. Lerner’s role in harassing the Tea Party, yet the IRS waited until last Friday to tell House committees that emails from the scandal’s central figure were “lost” in a hard-drive crash that conveniently left a two-year gap in Mrs. Lerner’s email record.

This is awfully familiar.

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