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FOIA News: Judicial Watch Sues IRS Over Email Preservation

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Judicial Watch Sues IRS Over Email Preservation

WBIW, Apr. 20, 2017

Judicial Watch announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to obtain records relating to the agency's "preservation and/or retention" of the email records of officials who have left the agency since January 2010. (Judicial Watch v. Internal Revenue Service (No.1:17-cv-00596)).

The suit was filed as part of Judicial Watch's continuing efforts to gain information about the IRS' targeting of conservative groups and citizens during the Obama administration.

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