In what has been mostly buried by the Thanksgiving holiday turkey coma the American public has fallen into, a lawsuit has uncovered 2,500 documents that could potentially prove the IRS provided confidential taxpayer information to the White House.
The legal advocacy firm Cause of Action sued the Treasury Department’s inspector general for information about further IRS coordination with the White House. The long-stonewalled lawsuit has finally borne fruit.
“[T]he Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed Cause of Action that there exist nearly 2,500 potentially responsive documents relating to investigations of improper disclosures of confidential taxpayer information by the IRS to the White House,” Cause of Action stated.
The Department of Justice is trying to delay the release of the documents for another two weeks.
“It needs the additional two weeks to deal with the last 500 pages to determine if they are responsive and make any necessary withholdings..,” said DOJ lawyer Yonatan Gelblum in an email to Cause of Action.
But don’t worry! Liberals assure us that we can trust this administration implicitly!