The IRS Scandal, Day 900

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, With IRS Decision, Another Favorite GOP Myth Crumbles Into Dust, by Jay Bookman:

Once again, the Republican response is to brush aside that contradiction as just further evidence of the dark forces that conspire against them. Once again, facts be damned, they refuse to even entertain the notion that their collective mythology might be wrong.

The latest example — coming the same week that the Benghazi story exploded on them — is the decision by the Justice Department not to file charges against former IRS official Lois Lerner, whom conservatives had long ago identified as the perpetrator of a White House-orchestrated plot to use the agency to punish its political enemies. In a letter explaining its findings, the Justice Department said it had indeed found “substantial evidence of mismanagement, poor judgment and institutional inertia” at the agency, all of which had been previously documented.

However, it uncovered “no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal prosecution. We also found no evidence that any official involved in the handling of tax-exempt applications or IRS leadership attempted to obstruct justice.”

Note the definitive nature of that statement. They found NO evidence. Not insufficient evidence for a prosecution, but NO evidence. After conducting more than 100 interviews over a two-year period, including extensive interviews with Lerner, and after perusing more than a million IRS documents and almost 500 non-profit applications, NO evidence of any criminal wrongdoing or malign intent.

Period.

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