See 53. I am not disagreeing with your points and I think there should be criminal prosecutions. I think it’s the supervisors and people in charge that should be prosecuted. Drones do what they are directed to do and people reviewing applications don’t have authority to “harass” people without direction from supervisors and/or permission from lawyers. Don’t forget the attorneys who are IRS counsel. They would have had to sign off on this too because they review everything.
They are going to try and blame the drones. It’s what they do in the Federal government today - protect management at all costs. Criminal charges against those supervisors makes it more likely that someone will talk. The next phase will be to blame the drones or lowest level supervisors. This did not originate with them - no way. Legal counsel would not have let this go on when they reviewed applications. I am not a lawyer and I can see how ridiculous some of these questions are.
Administering the nearly 4-million-word federal tax code involves so many arcane legalities, and is so fraught with potential to ignite Washington’s partisan skirmishes or infuriate taxpayers, that much of the IRS is run by lawyers
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/IRS-outpost-at-center-of-storm-4528502.php#ixzz2TluAqPhd
And we wonder why we are screwed?
Right. I agree with you.