WASHINGTON DC – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the IRS to detail under oath how some of former agency official Lois Lerner’s emails went missing, as well as any potential methods for recovering them.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington gave the Internal Revenue Service exactly a month — until Aug. 10 — to file a report, which he demanded as part of a lawsuit from a conservative watchdog, Judicial Watch, against the agency.
Judicial Watch is seeking a wide range of documents from the IRS, including Lerner’s emails, as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. It has complained that the IRS didn’t tell it that the agency couldn’t recover all of Lerner’s emails from 2009 to 2011.
Sullivan cast his ruling as a compromise, and a potential way for Judicial Watch to get answers without the court wading any deeper into the matter. Judicial Watch had asked the court to potentially compel IRS officials to testify about the lost emails, through a process called limited discovery. (more…)

SERIOUS DEVELOPMENT – Just before the IRS Goes Back To Court Tomorrow !

A rather large and explosive development in the ongoing IRS scandal. An email trail revealed today shows IRS Head Lois Lerner was worried in April 2013 about congress looking into her email conversations and warns colleagues to be careful about what is communicated. (*note* read bottom to top) :

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Before getting to the opinion of the group ‘Cause of Action’, allow me to just highlight the trail and how it appears to be falling into place.

January 2010 – President Obama gives a state of the union speech where he decries the recent Supreme Court ruling “Citizens United”.  (video here)  I’m also going to put the video below and make an odd request:
Please, watch it 5 to 8 times!   At each time look at the key people who react and/or rise after Obama’s words.   Most have noted Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito’s infamous mouthing of the words “that’s not true“, but I need you to look beyond Alito and the unknown Supreme court Senior aide {female at end of row}.

Look at Treasury Sec Tim Geithner and Attorney General Eric Holder.  Then replay and look at Senator Harry Reid, Senator Dick Durban and Senator Chuck Schumer {seated behind the Supremes}.   Pictures and video are worth thousands of words.
SUMMER 2010 –  In 2014 hindsight we know after this State of Union Speech – The IRS Tax Head Lois Lerner and the DOJ are in discussions about whether the Tax Enforcement Unit inside the DOJ should be assisting the IRS with investigation, using the FBI, of 501(c)(4) entities that are specifically the ire of the Obama administration as a result of that Citizens United ruling.  (more…)

In what might well be a very revealing week ahead the IRS will appear in two different court jurisdictions to explain the now infamous, lost but never reported, missing Lois Lerner emails.

On July 10th the IRS will have to explain in federal court the context of their failure to preserve evidence for the longstanding Judicial Watch lawsuit.   On May 13th 2013, the Lois Lerner emails were the subject of a specific JW lawsuit over non-compliance with FOIA.  The IRS has never told the court in this case that any emails were lost/missing.
The following day, on July 11th, the IRS will try to block a motion filed by Houston based True The Vote which seeks to have independent outside digital forensics experts comb through the IRS email files to see if the IRS claim is valid.   Judge Reggie Walton has agreed to hear arguments in support of True The Vote’s motion. (more…)

If media folks are finding sources willing to give out this much specific detail, it’s only a matter of time before the entire lid blows off the IRS scandal.  And the more that comes out, the more it looks like a DOJ initiated scheme using the IRS, instead of an IRS scheme using the DOJ.

(Via Daily Caller) Ex-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner tried to audit Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley after Grassley blocked President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Justice (DOJ) tax division, an executive branch insider told The Daily Caller.

Grassley made it more difficult for the IRS and DOJ to work together to target conservative groups by blocking Obama’s political appointee Mary L. Smith from taking over the DOJ Tax Division, which prosecutes criminal cases for the IRS. Grassley held up the nomination in early 2010, just as Lerner and fellow IRS officials were mapping out their targeting strategy. The White House later withdrew Smith’s nomination. (more…)

(Via Truth Revolt)  Buried in the heavily-reported story of protesters stopping buses full of immigrants being relocated to Murrieta, California this week was a small detail about what is the next step for the government in their effort to move the large groups into new facilities.

Unable to pass, the buses eventually backed down the street and headed to another facility about an hour and a half away from here. Gone from this location for now, but still in the United States. And the next group of 140 migrants is expected to arrive here on the Fourth of July.

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TaxProf Blog – Available HERE

Something is currently pushing the IRS targeting story down, away and out of view.

(CNSNews.com) — Former IRS attorney Jennifer O’Connor, who now works in the White House Counsel’s office, donated a total of $12,831 to Democrat candidates and parties between 2008 and 2012, which included donations to the Barack Obama campaign and to the Hillary Clinton campaign, according to records from OpenSecrets.gov. (more…)

Put forth without comment. What do you think about this ?