The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) of Syracuse University, through their counsel the Public Citizen Litigation Group, has filed a FOIA lawsuit claiming that the IRS is illegally withholding information about its operations, claiming without substantiation that some of the unclassified information would compromise homeland security if released to the public.  According to the press release:

The lawsuit is part of an ongoing effort by to obtain statistical information from the IRS about enforcement actions. Reversing 30 years of policy, the IRS under the Bush administration has stonewalled requests for public disclosure of such information. The IRS for many years has released scores of statistical tables and other information that allowed the American people, Congress, tax lawyers and other interested parties to make their own judgments about how the agency is enforcing the tax laws. But now the IRS is refusing to make public much of this information.

For further information, see:

• Background Report
• Press Release
• Complaint (12 pages)

Press accounts:

• FirstAmendmentCenter.org