U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has ordered the IRS to file a declaration in 30 days, under oath, explaining the issues surrounding the loss of thousands of emails belonging to Lois Lerner, as well as explaning why the documents are not retrievable. Fox News: The decision came Thursday as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which along with GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has questioned how the IRS lost the emails and, in some cases, had no apparent way to retrieve them.  The IRS first acknowledged it lost the emails in a letter to senators last month.  "In our view, there has been a cover-up that has been going on," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. "The Department of Justice, the IRS, had an obligation, an absolute obligation ... to alert the court and alert Judicial Watch as soon as they knew when these records were supposedly lost."  The IRS says it lost the...(Read Full Post)