Out of curiosity, I calculated the probability of Lerner’s and the other six officials’ computers crashing. (I had to do this on a computer; my TI-84 choked on the numbers.)
There are 91,082 full-time IRS employees. So the number of unique combinations of 7 people from this population is:
91,082! / (91,075! * 7!) = 1.0315665196729639e+31
Thus, the probability of that unique combination of those seven people having their computers crash is:
1 / 1.0315665196729639e+31 = 9.693994337049913e-32, which is
0.000000000000000000000000000009693994337049913%
Any statisticians out there who can give context to that number? Lightening striking the same place a hundred times? A thousand times?
Watergate was a “Conspiracy Theory”.
Sometimes there actually are conspiracies.