My initial reaction to this DOJ - IRS - Lerner eMail issue was a big yawn. If there really were violations of the law then DOJ+IRS is, I would assume, quite legit.
But that is not what was really happening. The path leads back to Dems in Congress pressuring the DOJ who then inquired with Lerner thus lighting the fuse that took us down the path that was followed.
Did DOJ and IRS and Lerner know this was all a political witch hunt. I’m sure they did. All they needed was a little pressure from “Congress” to set the wheels in motion.
Add in also that the inquiries were about applications that had *already* been segregated by politics.