The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has turned down an FOIA request from The Hill to release more than 500 pages of documents relating to the Tea Party targeting scandal at the IRS. This is just the latest indication that the Obama administration is trying to "run out the clock" on the investigation so that current officials will be out of government by the time any useful information is released. What makes these 500 pages of documents so important is that they were used as a basis for the TIGTA report of May, 2013 in which the IRS was accused of using "inappropriate criteria" to target conservative groups. TIGTA opted not to release any of the 512 documents covered by the request, citing various exemptions in the law. The Hill recently appealed the FOIA decision, but TIGTA denied the appeal. TIGTA also declined to comment for this article. In its written response to The Hill, TIGTA cited FOIA exemptions ranging from...(Read Full Post)