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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Court: Obama administration can’t hide investigation into former White
House adviser
By CJ Ciaramella
Published October 01, 2014
The Obama administration must acknowledge the existence of an independent
investigation into former White House senior economics adviser Austan
Goolsbee’s alleged unauthorized access to the Koch brother’s tax returns,
a court ruled Tuesday.
A federal judge ruled the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
(TIGTA) must disclose to watchdog group Cause of Action whether records of
an investigation exist.
Cause of Action filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit after
TIGTA refused to confirm or deny the existence of the investigation in what
is commonly known as a “Glomar response.”
“The court has ruled that the federal government cannot hide behind
confidentiality laws to prevent Americans from knowing if our President has
gained unauthorized access to their tax information,” Cause of Action
executive director Dan Epstein said in a statement Tuesday. “This is a
decisive win for all Americans and for government transparency and
accountability.”
Former White House Council of Economic Advisers chairman Austan Goolsbee
sparked a mini-scandal in 2010 when he told reporters during a background
press briefing that Koch Industries—the company of libertarian
philanthropists Charles and David Koch—paid no income taxes. |
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