Even my 82 year old father knows that the IRS "the dog ate my email and the backup server and the backup tapes and all the backed up email recipients' email archives too" is a pathetic lie.

I mean even he who has very little technical knowledge knows that there must be multiple backups in multiple places and forms.  Everyone knows that - even the press.

It's a pity our "crusading adversarial press" has such a bad collective brain damage that they can only see, write or think about right handed scandals because this IRS abuse of power story has Pulitzer written all over it.  Except that our "crusading adversarial selection committee" for the Pulitzer is even more left brain damaged so it could never even conceive of a story about committed lefties using the government to screw righties.  Don't think so?  Name me the Pulitzer prize winner who wrote accurately and critically (because to be one you must have done the other) about the Soviet Union.  You know, an anti - Walter Duranty, the famous NYT "reporter" who reported on the 'wonders' of the Soviet Union while living in the Soviet Union while Stalin was murdering ten to twenty million of his own people, many through man made famine.  To give a Pulitzer to that progressive putz for his lies about the soviets and refuse to rescind it when they are uncovered really tells you all you need to know about 'progressive' morality, doesn't it?

And of course you proggos who are reading this are thinking "it's even more of a pity that the Obami aren't good at techno lying".  Just remember:  What profiteth a man to gain the whole if he lose his eternal soul?  Just sayin'.