The disappearance of Lois Lerner’s e-mails reminds CNN’s Jim Acosta of a certain ploy kids use in grade-school.
In a witty exchange between Acosta and Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Tuesday about the missing e-mails, the CNN correspondent said, “Doesn’t that sound like the dog ate my homework, when you have two years of missing e-mails? On the face of it, it doesn’t sound credible.”
Earnest countered that Republicans have made the situation seem more preposterous than it is by ignoring the fact that “a large chunk” of the e-mails have been restored.
“24,000 e-mails from that time period have been re-constructed and produced to Congress…because of our commitment to cooperating with congressional oversight in this matter,” Earnest said. He also called the argument made by Republicans that there are 2 years worth of missing e-mails a “conspiracy theory” that “they have been propagating for some time now” and for which there is “zero evidence.”
News of the missing e-mails has added a layer of complexity to an ongoing federal investigation into the alleged targeting of conservative groups by the IRS.
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