'Baghdad Ezra' Klein: Lois Lerner's 'lost' emails? 'Don't look like a cover-up'!

Sarah D. | 4:21 PM on June 23, 2014

Welp, looks like we’re done here. Ezra Klein says those “lost” Lois Lerner emails don’t constitute a real cover-up:

https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/481158996062380032

However, when one looks at the documentation the IRS provided, no malfeasance appears evident. A long email chain predating the scandal documents Lerner’s computer difficulties and the agency’s failed attempts to restore her emails. Unless new information emerges to cast doubt on this explanation, the dark fears of a cover-up seem unsubstantiated.

Got that? Move along, folks. Nothing to see here!

.@ezraklein weird to base your argument on the timeline and then leave off that the inquiries started right before the e-mails were lost.

— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) June 23, 2014

Vox leaves out key detail of the timeline that refutes their whole argument, then declares there is no cover up: https://t.co/YDu8twyXRX

— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) June 23, 2014

Vox's whole argument about Lerner's e-mails is refuted by 1 fact they coincidently don't mention: http://t.co/F4ovhlfPC7 cc: @ezraklein

— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) June 23, 2014

From The Wall Street Journal, via Ace of Spades HQ:

As to Ms. Lerner’s behavior, consider that House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp first sent a letter asking if the IRS was engaged in targeting in June, 2011. Ms. Lerner denied it. She engineered a plant in an audience at a tax conference in May 2013 to drop the bombshell news about targeting (maybe hoping nobody would notice?). She has subsequently asserted a Fifth Amendment right to silence in front of the only people actually investigating the affair, Congress. Now we learn that her hard drive supposedly defied modernity and suffered total annihilation about 10 days after the Camp letter arrived.