Posted on 05/31/2015 9:43:02 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week’s revelation that hackers stole the identities of 100,000 taxpayers from the IRS was characterized as “small potatoes” by Commissioner John Koskinen. “There are over 120 million individuals who pay federal income taxes. The 100,000 who will be victimized by this data breach represent less than one-tenth of one-percent of the total.”
Koskinen went on to boast that “we stop nearly 50% of the breaches we know about before any individual’s information can be used to defraud the government”–an effectiveness ratio that he contended “far outshines your typical performance for any other federal agency.”
The Commissioner lamented that “while the Russian hackers responsible for this latest incursion into federal databases may be beyond our jurisdiction, the individuals who leaked word of the breach to the media will be tracked down and punished. The damage done to the people’s confidence in their government from this leak far outweighs the trivial amounts that any individuals may have lost from their refunds being stolen. The vast majority of those taxpayers eligible for refunds are low-income wage earners. Our nation can easily absorb the losses inflicted on them by Russian gangsters.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2015/05/30/court-strikes-down-idaho-abortion-limitation/
“The damage done to the people’s confidence in their government from this leak................” Tell us more about this confidence that I wasn’t aware of,Mr. Koskinen. You certainly aren’t inspiring any.
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