The Treasury Inspector General has identified 2,500 documents that could show the IRS shared taxpayer information with the White House

The investigation into the IRS targeting scandal may be about to heat up big time: Last week the IRS announced it miraculously found 30,000 of Lois Lerner’s supposedly lost emails (conveniently enough after the election) and today the IRS asked for an extension of the deadline to turn over certain documents which might have been shared with the White House.

You may be wondering why I consider it good news that the IRS has requested this extension, after all are they not stonewalling once again? Maybe not for you see the IRS Treasury Inspector General has found so many documents–2,500 to be exact–which “potentially” could have been shared with the White House that they cannot meet the deadline. The admission that these documents were found leads me to believe this is not another attempt at stonewalling the investigation, however it could provide them with the time needed to “doctor” the documents before turning them over. Just saying…

Here is more:

In a shocking revelation, the Treasury Inspector General has identified some 2,500 documents that “potentially” show taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service being shared with President Obama’s White House. The discovery was revealed to the group Cause of Action, which has sued for access to any of the documents. It charges that the IRS and White House have harassed taxpayers. In an email from the Justice Department’s tax office, an official revealed the high number of documents, suggesting that the White House was hip deep in probes of taxpayers, likely including conservatives and Tea Party groups associated with the IRS scandal. In requesting a delay in the delivery date of the documents, Justice 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.”

Here is what Cause of Action, the group which sued for the documents, had to say about this new revelation:

“This disclosure, coming only after Cause of Action sued TIGTA over its refusal to acknowledge whether such investigations took place, and after the court ordered TIGTA to reveal whether or not documents existed, signals that the White House may have made significant efforts to obtain taxpayers’ personal information,” it said in a statement to Secrets

Rhetorical question: Why do you think the IRS was potentially sharing all this information with the White House if there was no intent to use it for some nefarious purpose?

Isn’t taxpayer information supposed to be confidential? But of course there is not even a smidgen of corruption here and Barack Obama only learned about this on the news.