Showdown: Judge gives the IRS until Friday to provide missing email status.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court of Columbia, who we have written kindly about on this blog, has ordered the IRS to provide answers by the close of business Friday on the status of missing emails from Lois Lerner. The IRS recovered some 32,000 missing email from 744 backup tapes now in the possession of the Treasury Inspector General but at issue now are an additional 424 back up tapes. Judicial Watch wants to know where those tapes are and if they contain emails that should be released as part of its FOIA suit and so does Judge Sullivan.
“The Obama IRS obstructed and lied to a federal judge and Judicial Watch in an effort to hide the truth about Lois Lerner’s emails,” boomed Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch.