The DOJ’s use of the IRS to target political groups opposed to President Obama’s fundamental change policies remains one of the biggest scandals ever in the history of U.S. politics.  Yet few within the national media have ever attempted to broadcast the story.

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(Via Daily Caller) The Internal Revenue Service found 6,400 more Lois Lerner emails — but they’re not handing them over in court.  The IRS’ latest excuses are nothing short of infuriating.

Department of Justice lawyers Geoffrey J. Klimas and Stephanie Sasarak, acting as counsel for the IRS, submitted a U.S. District Court filing June 12 in the case Judicial Watch v. Internal Revenue Service.

The court filing, provided to The Daily Caller, claims the IRS received new Lerner emails from the Treasury Department’s inspector general (TIGTA) but can’t fork over the emails to Judicial Watch, a nonprofit group suing to get the emails. Why? Because the IRS is busy making sure that none of the emails are duplicates  – you know, so as not to waste anyone’s time.

However, the inspector general already made sure that none of the emails were duplicates, so the IRS’ latest excuse falls flat. Here are takeaways from the court filing.

TIGTA gave the IRS 6,400 Lerner emails that they recovered from backup tapes:

“On April 23, 2015, TIGTA provided approximately 6,400 forensically-recovered emails to the Service,” Klimas and Sasarak wrote. “Certain of the emails forensically recovered by TIGTA were not readable, or not entirely readable, as initially provided to the Service. TIGTA subsequently provided some of these documents to the Service in readable form on May 8 and June 1, 2015. To date, TIGTA has not provided any other recovered emails to the Service.”  (read more)

Pay attention to the last paragraph linked in the article above:

[…]  The legal advocacy group Cause of Action is also encountering ridiculous excuses in its own lawsuit to get Lerner’s emails. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Obama’s former White House chief of staff, seized all of the emails that went back and forth between the IRS and the White House and won’t hand them over, arguing that since confidential taxpayer information was illegally disclosed in the emails, then it would be illegal to make the emails public – since they have confidential taxpayer information in them. Get it?

The timing of when the DOJ/IRS targeting began to be exposed, and all the communication therein, is very specific to a time when Jack Lew was President Obama’s Chief of Staff.

From January 27th of 2012 to January 25th of 2013 President Obama’s Chief of Staff was Jack Lew.   Later Lew was appointed to be President Obama’s Treasury Secretary.

That appointment put Lew (Treasury) in charge of controlling any IRS document releases to inspectors during the investigative portion of the scheme’s discovery.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is now using his position to block the release of emails during the time when he was White House Chief of Staff.  In essence he’s hiding his own communication.

Fully understand by reading this prior research thread.

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