Judge Tells IRS It Can’t Hide White House Emails

The testimony to which Tom  Fitton from Judicial Watch is speaking is not that of Judge Amy Berman Jackson discussed below.

At the time of publication it was not available on your tube or other digital media no doubt preemptively removed by the Obats working at You Tube for Obama.

 

Does anyone serious the recidivist perjurers sent by this administration will tell the truth?

 

Remember, lying is a requirement during the vetting process.

 

 

 

 

Daily Caller.

Mark Tippscott

August, 31, 2015

 

White House emails to the IRS about individual tax returns cannot be exempted by the embattled agency under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge ruled Friday.

United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Section 6103 of the tax code does not justify the IRS from withholding from FOIA requesters by refusing to say whether the records exist.

She ordered the IRS to respond properly to a FOIA request submitted by the non-profit watchdog group Cause of Action.

 

Amy B. Jackson, during her confirmationPhoto by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.

 

“As we have said all along, this administration cannot misinterpret the law in order to potentially hide evidence of wrongdoing.

No administration is above the law, and we are pleased that the court has sided with us on this important point,” said Daniel Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action.

 

 

Berman concluded that the answer to that question is no “because it is not at all clear that all executive branch requests for ‘return information’ can be characterized as ‘return information’ that is factual in nature and shielded from disclosure by the taxpayer confidentiality statute.”

Cause of Action submitted its FOIA request after it was learned that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration had investigated allegations that White House officials working for President Barack Obama had sought tax return information about conservative and tea party non-profit allegations during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns.

For reasons never made public, however, TIGTA did not make the report of its investigation public.

Congress has been investigating the IRS targeting of such groups for illegal harassment since the activity was first disclosed in 2013 by Lois Lerner, the former head of the tax agency’s tax-exempt review division. Lerner was allowed by the Obama administration to retire without disciplinary action after she twice refused to answer congressional questions about the illegal harassment.

It’s not known if the government will appeal Berman’s decision, but if the decision stands and the IRS is compelled to produce emails concerning White House requests for the targeted groups’ tax returns, plus all other IRS documents related to those requests, it could put the harassment back on the front page just as the 2016 presidential campaign is heating up.