LOIS LERNER, IRS WHITE HOUSE BUSTED? Former U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman (L-R), IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin take their seats to testify before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on targeting of political groups seeking tax-exempt status from by the IRS, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., May 22, 2013. (Photo : Reuters) Some 2,500 documents that potentially show taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service was reportedly shared with the Obama administration, according to a shocking revelation by the Treasury Inspector General. The discovery, revealed to the group Cause of Action which has sued for access to any of the documents, speculates that both the IRS and White House were working together to harass taxpayers, The Washington Examiner reported. A large number of documents suggest that President Obamas White House was directly involved in probes of taxpayers, likely including conservatives and Tea Party groups associated with the IRS scandal, an official revealed in an email from the Justice Departments tax office. In requesting a delay in the delivery date of the documents, the DOJ told Cause of Action, The agency [Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration] has located 2,500 potentially responsive documents and anticipates being able to finish processing 2,000 of these pages by the December 1 date. It needs the additional two weeks to deal with the last 500 pages to determine if they are responsive and make any necessary withholdings. But Cause of Action, which calls itself Advocates for Government Accountability, had been expecting these documents since it had earlier filed a lawsuit to win access to them but had been denied by a federal judge, according to Fox Nation. This disclosure, coming only after Cause of Action sued TIGTA over its refusal to acknowledge whether such investigations took place,...
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