Nor can we sit. MT @gregorykowalski The FOIA public reading room at IRS headquarters is closed to the public. — Fredreka Schouten (@fschouten) May 16, 2013

Remember yesterday’s stunning above-the-fold banner headline across USA Today’s front page? The no-nonsense truth bomb called, “IRS gave a pass to liberals”? The byline on that article belonged to the newspaper’s Washington correspondent Gregory Korte, who tweets today that the IRS won’t give him (or anyone else) as pass to the IRS’ Freedom of Information Act public reading room. Not only that: guards wouldn’t even let him photograph the door … which was locked, by the way. And no one seems to have the key.

UPDATE: Disclosure office and building security say no one has a key to the IRS HQ FOIA public reading room. — Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) May 16, 2013

No coverup #IRS @gregorykorte UPDATE: Disclosure office and building security say no one has a key to the IRS HQ FOIA public reading room. — Tim Carlson (@thecivilcomment) May 16, 2013

So the FOIA reading room at the IRS HQ has been closed to the public. Punishing the citizenry again just like the sequester. So petty… — Cure Radio (TheCure) (@CURESHOW) May 16, 2013

“@gregorykorte: Disclosure office and building security say no one has a key to the IRS HQ FOIA public reading room.” Really… #SoundsLegit — Amanda Walters (@amandawalters) May 16, 2013

There’s always the website.

Here's the link to the IRS FOIA reading room. Tell me if this is transparent. I've been trying to get in for days. http://t.co/KxOO0o1d73 — Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) May 16, 2013

Remember that handy tweet from the White House today reminding us that Obamacare is the law? So is maintaining a public reading room under the Freedom of Information Act.

IRS FOIA regs require all documents "likely to become the subject of subsequent requests" to be in Reading Room: http://t.co/o3qbCwn4Pj — Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) May 16, 2013

Don’t worry about it, though; there’s nothing to see there anyway.