CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: This is getting really toxic. Is their best defense stupidity and is it really a defense to say it couldn't have happened because it would have been stupid? There have been a lot of stupid conspiracies in American and world history. The idea that it's dumb because it would have been stupid is nonsensical. It shows you how afraid they are.



The IG himself has said it was not an investigation, it was an audit. Which means there are all kinds of questions, the really important ones, who directed it, what was the motive, any politics involved? All of that he hasn't even been asked. We aren't even at the beginning here.



The White House is making a big mistake. It looks as if its strategy is stonewall and have this argument that it was a bunch of rogues in Cincinnati. That is not going to hold. So, in the end they’re going to have to change their story, again. Every time you change your story you lose the trust of people who are hearing you. And it's going to have to change.



The only question is how high did it go? I think the way is to give immunity to people like Lois Lerner, and we will learn as you go up the chain. (Special Report, June 3, 2013)