Posted on 07/07/2015 4:14:22 PM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Federal Court Orders IRS to Produce Newly Recovered Lois Lerner Emails, IRS Fails to Meet Court Deadline
(Washington, DC ) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton announced today that Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the IRS last week to begin producing, every Monday, nearly 1,800 newly recovered Lois Lerner emails. Judge Sullivan ruled on the matter from the bench during a status conference on July 1, 2015. Despite the court order, the IRS failed to produce any Lois Lerner emails yesterday. The IRS also failed to provide Judicial Watch a status of the Lois Lerner email production issues, as also ordered by Judge Sullivan.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recovered the emails from IRS back-up tapes. TIGTA was able to locate the Lois Lerner back-up tapes within one day of requesting them from the IRS.
A report released today by TIGTA on the Lois Lerner email controversy confirms that the IRS failure to timely search its back-up tapes resulted in 24,000 Lois Lerner emails being destroyed. The TIGTA report also confirms that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen delayed informing Congress (and the courts) for months about Lois Lerner’s email issue. (Judge Sullivan ordered the IRS to produce the TIGTA report to chambers the next day for in camera review at the July 1 hearing.)
The TIGTA report details that the Treasury Department also knew about the Lerner email problems for months but made no public disclosure. TIGTA discloses that other records remain missing, including potentially over 300 IRS hard drives. The office of IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins, an Obama political appointee, oversaw the mishandling of the Lois Lerner email issue.
“The IRS, working through the Justice Department, has violated an explicit federal court order to begin turning over Lois Lerner’s ‘lost’ emails,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama IRS’ contempt for the courts and for Congress resulted in a massive destruction of evidence. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen’s and IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins’ resignations are long overdue.”
The developments come in Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking documents about the Obama IRS’ targeting and harassment of Tea Party and conservative opponents of President Obama ( Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)). Judicial Watch’s litigation forced the IRS first to admit that Lerner’s emails were supposedly missing and, then, that the emails were on IRS back-up systems.
In November 2014, the IRS told the court it had failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lerner and other IRS officials.
On February 26, 2015, TIGTA officials testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that it had received 744 back-up tapes containing emails sent and received by Lerner. This testimony showed that the IRS had falsely declared to Congress, Judge Sullivan and Judicial Watch that Lerner’s emails were irretrievably lost.
Would that be reminiscent of Eric Holder?
Worcester v. Georgia:
In a popular quotation that is believed to be apocryphal, President Andrew Jackson reportedly responded: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!” This derives from Jackson’s comments on the case in a letter to John Coffee, “...the decision of the Supreme Court has fell still born, and they find that they cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate,” (that is, the Court’s opinion because it had no power to enforce its edict).
Congress could have issued a warrant for his arrest.
Judge needs to order and jail everyone obstructing. start from the top down. Congress will do nothing anyway. Maybe someone will talk.
Probably not since IRS has the entire Clinton foundation(s) in their discretion. These are outright crimes and arguably TREASON. So far not a whisper of hope.
Foot dragging is OK for now. We don’t want any of the guilty parties convicted while Obama is still in office!
Excellent point, the turkey would be proud to make in-your-face pardons.
Dying of old age here.
Thanks.
It is my ignorance of the law, but destroying the tapes while under investigation is a clear case of obstruction of justice. What am I missing?
It is my ignorance of the law, but destroying the tapes while under investigation is a clear case of obstruction of justice. What am I missing?
That was the point of the delay.
"IRS Commissioner John Koskinen’s and IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins’ resignations are long overdue.”
Until a person is placed into prison and held personally responsible, this is all just a pony show to amuse the folks who still think there are laws to be followed.
I’ve heard that the Sgt. at Arms has some statutory authority to arrest and detain, but also that it only runs to actions within the District of Columbia.
Since most of these mokes either live or work there it might not be a problem.
This is what I am wondering as well. I bet Obama would order the Federal Marshall’s not act on the Fed Judge’s orders. Then what? Obama would order SS, CIA, FBI as back-up and make the Marshall’s stand down.
It is truly frightening to see how this President and his administration is allowed to violate the laws, give Judges and others the middle finger.
This will only get worse should Hillary win the election.
When will one of these malignant LIB criminals arrest this judge. How dare he question them?
So when are we going to see a perp walk?
When will they be going to jail?
1) The authority of Congress does not rest on any statute, this goes for the Sgt at Arms.
2) Congressional authority to enforce their subpoena is not confined to DC.
Read the links I provided.
Clearly, there is only one viable answer to this. The Judicial Branch is going to need an armed enforcement agency, complete with battering rams and flash bangs. And bridging tools to get through that nice, new spikey fence surrounding the White Hut.
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