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To: Bill who wrote (820908)	12/4/2014 8:39:08 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1583499

Obama Administration REFUSES To Release Documents About White House Role in IRS Scandal The Daily Caller Patrick Howley 3:31 PM 12/03/2014 Excerpt: The Obama administration said that it is withholding all of the thousands of pages of documents related to the White House’s coordination with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the IRS conservative targeting scandal. Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew, Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff, took the documents that were set to be released and now refuses to ever turn them over. His rationale? Lew cannot release information about improper disclosures of confidential taxpayer information because that would be an improper disclosure of confidential taxpayer information. The Daily Caller reported that the Treasury Department’s inspector general found nearly 2,500 pages of documents that chronicle investigations into the confidential taxpayer information that the White House exchanged with the IRS. The documents were found pursuant to a lawsuit that the legal advocacy firm Cause of Action filed against the Treasury Department’s inspector general. The lawyer for the inspector general, Gregory M. Miller, told Cause of Action this week in a letter that Lew seized the documents. snip Full Story

To: Bill who wrote (820908)	12/4/2014 9:12:09 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583499

EU court orders France to pay thousands to Somali pirates .................................................................................. msmnews ^ \| Dec. 4, 2014 \| France 24 The EU's top human rights court on Thursday ordered France to pay thousands of euros to Somali pirates who attacked French ships for "violating their rights" by holding them an additional 48 hours before taking them before a judge. The Somali pirates were apprehended on the high seas by the French army on two separate occasions in 2008 and taken back to France for trial. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said that French authorities should have brought the pirates before a judge "without delay" when they arrived on French territory after being held at sea. The EU’s top human rights court said French authorities were wrong to keep the pirates in custody for an additional 48 hours before bringing them before a judge. (Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...