Fishy in Bushland

Hmmm:

The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data, which has been used to show which kinds of taxpayers get the most and toughest audits, a noted tax researcher says.

Syracuse University Professor Susan B. Long said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle late last week that since Nov. 1, 2004, the Internal Revenue Service has violated a 1976 court order requiring the release of the data...

And in other corruption news:
• "In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws."

• Indicted on money laundering and conspiracy charges, former GOP House majority leader Tom Delay's request to have the charges dropped or sent to a lower court have been dismissed.

• As a leaked FBI email admits that there are bigger fish to fry in Jack Abramoff's corruption case, Howard Dean sets Wolf Blitzer straight: "There are no Democrats who took money from Jack Abramoff, not one, not one single Democrat. Every person named in this scandal is a Republican. Every person under investigation is a Republican. Every person indicted is a Republican. This is a Republican finance scandal." [transcript / video]