Obama administration loses 2 big ones in IRS and Hillary scandals

August 4, 2015



Two major developments have occurred over the weekend and today in the ongoing scandal at the IRS and the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton's attempt to hide key documents from her years as Secretary of State. Although the late document dump occurred last Friday evening, more information has come to light concerning crucial emails from the IRS regarding Lois Lerner's apparent attempt to hamstring the Tea Party, conservatives, and other patriot groups in order to minimize their opposition to Barack Obama during his 2012 reelection campaign.

U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan blasted the IRS for its failure to produce key documents concerning the Lerner attempt to minimize the opposition to Barack Obama. The IRS is alleged to possess documents the investigators need to get to the truth. The agency also engaged in obstruction by refusing to release all of these documents, with the blessing and participation of current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

Judge Sullivan is reportedly so livid at the failure of the IRS to cooperate with Congressional investigators and carry out his orders that he fired off a letter to the IRS stating that Commissioner Koskinen will be held in contempt of court if he fails to cooperate -- a serious violation of the law that carries much more teeth than a contempt of Congress citation. Foot dragging by the IRS is now a legal issue for the court. And a federal judge obviously is in no mood to put up with any more delays and obstruction by the IRS.

The Judge further stated that he is prepared to hold IRS employees in contempt of court if they engage in any more delays. Judge Sullivan, it should be noted, is no Republican but a Democrat who was appointed as U.S. District Judge by former President Bill Clinton.

In another crucial development, Hillary Clinton and the State Department have also managed to attract the attention and the ire of the courts. A clearly irritated U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon stated during a hearing that he could not understand why the State Dept. dragged its feet in responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The context of the judge's statement was that numerous FOIA requests from Judicial Watch (JW) to gain access to vital information Hillary Clinton kept on her personal, private server while Secretary of State.

Judge Leon issued direct court orders to State and several top brass closest to Hillary that he wants the information immediately. And thus, given that neither the IRS nor the State Dept. have been compliant with Congress in its investigation into these crucial issues, the federal court system is now involved -- not an enviable position in which to find ones self.

The IRS will probably target the judge now.

no.. not likely... more likely that Obama will start intervening and if the judge pushes it, start handing out pardons.

Not big enough.

He's still president and not in prison.

What's changed from these "losses?"

Nothing really.

And even if Lerner goes to prison and Hillary goes to prison...how does Obama lose?

You think any of this stuff will ever really touch him?