It’s About Time: IRS to Comply with Congress on Lerner Emails

We’re just days from the one-year anniversary of Lois Lerner’s fateful “apology” and acknowledgement that the IRS had spent the past nearly three years targeting conservative groups.

Today, for the first time, the IRS has finally agreed to turn over all of Lois Lerner’s emails to the House Ways and Means Committee.

It’s about time.

The announcement comes one day following bipartisan votes in the House of Representatives holding former top IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena and a separate resolution calling for the DOJ to appoint Special Counsel to investigate the IRS scandal.

As Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp stated:

While it is good that we are finally getting these emails, it should never have taken this long. The agency is finally doing what is right and hopefully this is the last of the delays. It is almost a year to the day since Lois Lerner ‘apologized’ for the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and we need to get to the bottom of this. These documents are critical to an investigation that is holding the IRS accountable and ensuring the constitutional rights of these groups are never trampled on again. The Committee will thoroughly review the Lerner documents and follow them wherever they may lead.

The Lerner emails are a key to the truth in unraveling the IRS scandal – a critical piece of evidence the IRS has successfully stonewalled Congress and the American people on until now.

As the congressional investigations continue, so does our federal lawsuit on behalf of 41 targeted conservative and pro-life groups from 22 states.

Today’s IRS concession brings us one step closer to justice, even if it has taken them a year to comply.