IRS E-mails: The Perfect Storm

The American Thinker reports:

August 22 is another deadline for the Obama administration’s IRS officials to come clean about their clear malfeasance in office. Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has acted sua sponte to compel IRS officials to provide all the details surrounding the “lost” e-mails, has the reputation of a judicial pit bull, a federal judge who insists that his orders and his office be treated with proper respect.

Placing himself directly in the middle of this scandal, Judge Sullivan has removed the favored riposte by the left: attack the questioner. Sullivan is a black jurist from Howard University, perhaps the most respected black university in America. He was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton.

Judge Sullivan has also made his mark as an implacable foe of the policing authorities of the Executive Branch abusing their power. When Ted Stevens was railroaded by federal prosecutors, Judge Sullivan not only thoroughly dressed down the corrupt Justice Department officials, but also took the extraordinary step of appointing an independent prosecutor. (Think what would happen if Judge Sullivan did the same in this case!)

The struggles of the Obama regime.