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When a FOIA Request Demanded Any Documents Specifically Mentioning the Tea Party, the IRS Claimed That No Documents Could Be Found Responsive to This Request
From the Free Beacon:
The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general.
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative nonprofit group, filed a FOIA request in 2010 through investigative journalist Lynn K. Walsh seeking all IRS documents related to the agencies tax-exempt division specifically mentioning the Tea Party.
IRS headquarters responded in 2011 that it “found no documents specifically responsive to your request.”
However, the May 14 inspector general report found that the “first Sensitive Case Report [identifying Tea Party groups] was prepared by the Technical Unit” in April of 2010.
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Judicial Watch: Irs Used Donor Lists To Target Audits
Evil and Proud of It When are Koksukaman and Lois (Slow) Lerner going to go to prison? (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that confirm that the IRS used donor lists...
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Report: Lois Lerner's Emails Show Obama's Justice Department Assisted Irs In Targeting Conservatives
From Breitbart: After a year and a half of investigating, Congress has finally gotten to see a large number of the “missing” emails form IRS administrator Lois Lerner. Some of these emails seem to show that Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ)...
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New Lois Lerner Emails Show Obama’s Justice Department Involved In Irs Targeting Scandal
From Forbes: Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn’t over, and it may be worse than anyone thought. A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface. The picture...
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Irs Illegally Shares 2,500 Documents With White House; Irs ‘watchdog’ Says We Can’t See Them, Citing ‘privacy’
From Fox: An IRS watchdog is acknowledging that thousands of documents related to requests between the White House and the tax agency for unauthorized tax information exist — but says it must withhold them all due to privacy concerns. The revelation...
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This Is Going Nowhere
So move on. The President can classify any document he wants without review or quertion and said classified documents are protected from FOIA. And before we get crazy on Obama passing such a law it was actually passed under Bush in 2004? 2005? or thereabouts....
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