"The Obama administration tried to argue that it doesn’t have to follow through with such requests and invoked the same law the judge cited to say that it is required to hand over the information.“The Court is unwilling to stretch the statute so far, and it cannot conclude that section 6103 may be used to shield the very misconduct it was enacted to prohibit,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote.
Cause of Action, the legal watchdog group that sued the IRS in 2013, hailed Friday’s decision as a “victory for transparency advocates,” the Free Beacon reported."
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