REMEMBER THE IRS SCANDAL? – AT 9:30 A.M. ET:  Or, as Obama says, what scandal?  There was a scandal?

It centered on Lois Lerner, who allegedly had much to do with the IRS targeting conservative groups.  Well, poor Lois sent out many e-mails.  Congress wants those e-mails.  But...oh dear...it's so hard to keep track of those thingies.  Reader Joseph J. Gallick refers us to the latest report.  Remember that Nixon only lost 18 minutes of a tape.  From The Wall Street Journal: 

The IRS—remember those jaunty folks?—announced Friday that it can't find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury. And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill. An agency spokesman blames a computer crash.

Never underestimate government incompetence, but how convenient. The former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations was at the center of the IRS targeting of conservative groups and still won't testify before Congress. Now we'll never know whose orders she was following, or what directions she was giving. If the Reagan White House had ever offered up this excuse, John Dingell would have held the entire government in contempt.

The suspicion that this is willful obstruction of Congress is all the more warranted because this week we also learned that the IRS, days before the 2010 election, shipped a 1.1 million page database about tax-exempt groups to the FBI. Why? New emails turned up by Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee show Department of Justice officials worked with Ms. Lerner to investigate groups critical of President Obama.

COMMENT:   This is one of the most incompetent and corrupt administrations I've ever seen.  But maybe that's its secret:  It may depend on "scandal fatigue" on the part of the public to protect it.  After a while, you tune out.

June 14,  2014