RedState Briefing 10/10/2014

The White House Dogs

In “Silver Blaze,” a short story about Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a prized race horse went missing the night before a major race. Holmes, investigating the disappearance and the related death of the horse’s trainer, refers “o the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” The curious incident was that the dog did not bark. The dog at the stables made no sound as the thief stole the horse because the dog knew the thief. The Obama Administration has not barked in these cases. Internal Revenue Service emails from employees under investigation by Congress have been deleted. The Obama Administration’s best guess is that there was just an unfortunate coincidence of timing with an obligatory reference to “partisan witch hunts.” The same holds for the EPA and now the SEC. The Obama Administration has expressed little concern, mostly taking the opportunity to blame Republicans. Government data has been deleted and no one in the White House seems concerned. The dog is not barking. The White House dog is barking, however, at two new scandals.

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Sincerely yours, Erick Erickson Editor-in-Chief, RedState