A federal judge Friday ordered the IRS to turn over the records of any requests from the White House seeking taxpayers’ private information from the tax agency, delivering a victory to a group that for two years has been trying to pry the data loose.
It’s not clear that there were any such requests — but Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the IRS cannot just refuse to say so by citing taxpayer confidentiality laws, known as section 6103 of the tax code.
“This court questions whether section 6103 should or would shield records that indicate confidential taxpayer information was misused, or that government officials made an improper attempt to access that information,” the judge wrote in denying the IRS’s request to close out the case.
The ruling marks yet another federal judge who has ordered the Obama administration to be more transparent when responding to open-records records. The State Department is facing a barrage of orders from federal judges demanding more cooperation in releasing former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s emails.
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And this is what the government's intended Checks and Balances that you heard of in high school is about. Keep remembering that the We, th People are not governed by royalty.
ReplyDeleteHow many judges does it take, to have records and evidence of wrongdoing released? It seems like there's been one court order after another, between Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, Hillary, and others, to turn over evidence and records. Then it just goes away, until yet another court orders the same thing, to no avail.
ReplyDeleteIf we the people failed to abide by a court order, we'd be locked up, and our assets seized. If you're "important", you just keep bouncing it around to one judge after another until you get a decision you want.
10:37, "...We,th People are not supposed to be governed by royalty". There fixed it for ya. Because we are being ruled over by the 'Elite'.
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ReplyDeleteObama paraphrasing Blazing Saddles, "Records? We don't need no stinking records!"