On Monday the IRS filed an appeal of the judge’s decision denying its motion to dismiss Z Street’s case. The government says the action stops all discovery while the appeal is pending, a process that could take months or even years. By filing the appeal on the last possible day, the Justice Department is running out the clock on discovery during the remainder of the Administration.
This is a whole lot of effort to prevent discovery in a case that is not even seeking damages. Ways and Means uncovered the email exchange between State and the IRS only after Treasury was forced to turn over documents it had previously withheld. What else did it lose in the ether?
By the way, if you’re not following him, the Tax Prof is covering this every day.
New Emails: Lois Lerner Referred to Conservatives as ‘***holes’ and ‘TeRrorists’
(CNSNews.com) – A newly discovered email exchange from Lois Lerner’s official IRS email account “directly demonstrates Ms. Lerner’s deep animus towards conservatives, which she refers to as ‘—holes,'” House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday.
In that Nov. 9, 2012 email, Lerner further suggests that conservatives will ruin the country: “So we don’t need to worry about alien teRrorists (sic). It’s our own crazies that will take us down,” she wrote.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/new-emails-lois-lerner-referred-conservatives-holes-and-terrorists
To view the email:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/30/New-Emails-Expose-Lois-Lerner-Rants-About-Conservative-Crazies