Ok my issue is that the committee should be looking into who drafted the questions (and since these questions were sent to a “group” it can be considered a “form” but those rules may be long gone now)
I cannot imagine a single low level employee asking for this type of information if there had not been direction from above and there should be an email path to the who required the low level folks to ask for donor lists.
I believe there are 27 clients with these questions which does indicate coordination in an office for the employees to send them out.
Just a thought running through my head as I try to imagine how the questions were developed and sent out to more than one applicant. What guidelines were given the employees to ask for them and which attorney int he government approved it because there is always attorneys lurking behind anything of this kind.
The analysts probably had no idea a higher order question was being asked. That's because all analysts in any administrative or regulatory body ALWAYS specialize in what they do best ~ else they could never get all the work done. Remember, most agency administrative dollars are wasted on highr level people or supernumeraries who have absolutely nothing to do with actual case work. Each one of these analysts will be matched pound for pound with a legal team with which they connect only rarely, and then only on the lawyer's schedule ~ they, the lawyers being very busy with coffee breaks.
Did I tell you the old joke about a dog named coffee break? Funny to gub'mnt employees if not taxpayers ~ but every bit of it was true! (chortles to self) SEE; >http://www.deeplake.com/jokes/animal8.shtml,p>The point being that the fellows doing the cases are hard pressed all the time and are trying to do their work ~ not conspire against the public. That's for the higher ups and their friends.
Regarding using a committee to look into this is that will not result in the right questions being asked ~ hence the Inspector General's report ~ it's all there, but the cases themselves are not open to public review ~ that being against the law ~ this is IRS and they're outside the FOIA rules!
The leftwingtards are as upset as anyone at this particular shenanigan ~ after all, if it's OK to do this to Conservatives it's OK to do it to Leftwingtards!
Nobody wants IRS involved in politics.