NYT editor casually suggests Christie might have destroyed Bridgegate evidence

Rosenthal, however, did not show the same skepticism regarding former IRS official Lois Lerner, who was at the center of a scandal in which the tax-oversight agency appeared to have been unfairly targeting mostly conservative and Tea Party nonprofit applicants.

“[I]t’s pretty clear there was no conspiracy,” Rosenthal wrote in April.

It was subsequently reported, however, that Lerner and other IRS officials “lost” emails (some of which have since been recovered) that could have proven crucial to investigation of the matter.