The saga of Lois Lerner and her disgraceful conduct at the IRS continued this past week. In the months since her departure as head honcho, the IRS agreed to hand over all of Lerner’s emails from 2009 to 2011 to the House Ways and Means Committee which has been investigating the actions of Lerner and other officials at the federal agency. It would not have been surprising if the IRS handed over stacks of redacted emails in the Lerner case. After all, tampering with documents is a trademark of the Obama administration.

For example, last year the Justice Department, under Eric Holder’s leadership, produced a completely redacted memorandum when it was ordered to turn over documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the ACLU seeking insight into the Obama administration’s policy on intercepting text messages from cell phones. The entire 15-page document was blacked out, with only the heading left intact.

Complete redaction of subpoenaed documents is not a new trick for Obamabots. Several years before the Justice Department’s stunt the three liberal members of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) pulled a similar redaction stunt,. against the wishes of the three conservative members of the Commission. Someone, at the direction of the liberal members, redacted a mysterious document known only as the “first First General Counsel’s Report.” Because this document was redacted, no one outside the FEC knows what was in the report. Indeed, the FEC is not saying what was in it since it possibly would reveal information that could expose ways for political action committees to get around federal election laws. This redacted document ended up backfiring on the Democrats in their case against Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit organization affiliated with Karl Rove that spent tens of millions of dollars on campaign advertisements leading up to the 2012 election.