For a moment, let’s just say that the IRS is innocent of any wrong doing. They didn’t target anyone and they didn’t destroy any emails. Sure, it’s ridiculous, but go with it. Wouldn’t you think that - as a completely innocent organization - you’d be doing everything in your power to appear as above-board as possible? Wouldn’t you be bending over backwards to make sure you were saving every possible scrap of data so that no one could accuse you of destroying evidence?

Or, would you announce that you’re looking to hire contractors to help you with “media destruction services” so that you can quickly eliminate 3,200 hard drives? ....Because that’s what the IRS is doing.

From the Washington Times:

Days after IRS officials said in a sworn statement that former top agency employee Lois G. Lerner’s computer memory had been wiped clean, the agency put out word to contractors Monday that it needs help to destroy at least another 3,200 hard drives.

Now, as the Times points out, this is a routine part of operations at the IRS. They collect vast amounts of data on virtually every American, and at some point they are required to destroy it. However, at a time when they’re being investigated for the elimination of their own incriminating evidence, this just reeks of the worst kind of self-serving corruption.

Shouldn’t someone within the agency - again assuming that this is just business-as-usual - have said “hey guys, maybe now’s not the time?” Wasn’t there anyone working for this entirely-innocent-and-not-at-all-crooked federal department who stood up and said “we’d better be careful how we word this?”