Nondenial Denial: IRS Denies Withholding Documents It Refuses to Release

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBNFTVKJ7E.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Internal Revenue Service recently refused to provide two university researchers with records requested under the Freedom of Information while simultaneously asserting, "We are not denying the release" of the documents.
The Education Department recently cut off all communication with an interest group about its FOIA request after the group published a critical report based on the first batch of documents released in response to that request.

Both requesters now have filed federal lawsuits in Washington to obtain the records they seek.

David Burnham and Susan Long, researchers with the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, sued on Thursday for documents they requested in November.

[KittyWampus]

1. Funniest LBN Thread Title In Ages. But Wait, It's NOT FUNNY DAMMIT!

[MO_Dem]

2. Man,

I think I must be in the twilight zone. This can't really be real, can it?

[DulceDecorum]

5. The Twilight Zone, otherwise known as George Bush's America.

http://www.cronus.com/zone/

[Carolab]

3. I've come for the argument.

Did not! Did too!

More and more like Monty Python everyday.

[Solly Mack]

4. OK. That one hurt my head

It goes right up there with Rummy's unknown known unknowns that we don't know we don't know we know...

[halobeam]

6. LMAO!!!...

I can't get a straight thought out yet, my heads still pounding.

[Solly Mack]

7. It's unreal ...way beyond Orwellian

These people have taken this stuff to new heights...not even Orwell could have imagined.

Oh, my head!

[lovuian]

8. You really got to wonder whats in those IRS forms!!!

and why the IRS is shaking!!!

[Solly Mack]

10. No kidding!

[UpInArms]

9. these people make my head hurt

Manager Maureen Sapero wrote of the reference guide: "We are not denying release of the document" but said it "is an 'Internal Use' document and cannot be released to the public."

Rascoe said the section of the manual had been designed "Official Use Only" under new federal security requirements.

Burnham and Long argued that neither "Internal Use" not "Official Use Only" are recognized as exemptions to release under FOIA.

So now even the IRS is using the "national security" bs?

:wtf:

[struggle4progress]

11. This is how the Ownership Society works. It's pointless to argue ...

... with them directly. The only thing that makes sense is to organize against them.