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IRS Insider Blows Lid Off “Culture of Corruption”
The New American ^ | 2/14/2014 | Alex Newman

Posted on 02/14/2014 6:22:44 AM PST by detective

As a growing cloud of perpetual mega-scandal continues to swirl around the embattled Internal Revenue Service, an IRS insider who has worked as an attorney at the tax agency’s Office of the General Counsel for over 26 years is now blowing the whistle on what he says is systemic, massive corruption as well as routine abuse of taxpayers. In an explosive exposé posted on Power Line, William Henck accused the agency — currently under fire for targeting political groups the Obama administration disagrees with — of embezzlement, bullying elderly taxpayers, retaliatory audits, scams, and more.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: irs
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To: detective

The IRS has, since its creation and by design, been a tyrant’s tool of oppression just awaiting the willing user to come along.


21 posted on 02/14/2014 7:00:30 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: PGalt

“Not a smidgen of corruption”....no, there is an ocean of corruption. An ocean is not a smidgen.


22 posted on 02/14/2014 7:00:36 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (Washington: "I cannot tell a lie". Obama: "I cannot tell.....I lie")
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To: Chickensoup

Yes, IT failures in the government are common place. Obamacare was but one example. But in the case of the IRS, several spectacular failure equated to billions of dollars.

In general, in the government nobody is ever held accountable; they are more likely to be promoted or get a better job in another agency.


23 posted on 02/14/2014 7:02:27 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Salvavida

I suspect many others will be coming forward... When there’s a culture of corruption it doesn’t take a lot to find the corruption.


24 posted on 02/14/2014 7:02:28 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: PGalt

Or his car may suddenly hit something and explode.


25 posted on 02/14/2014 7:03:18 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Starboard
The media will brand him as a disgruntled kook. They will marginalize and censure him.

Nah, they'll maintain complete silence over the story.

Standard ops.

26 posted on 02/14/2014 7:03:36 AM PST by SIDENET
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To: Starboard

In general, in the government nobody is ever held accountable; they are more likely to be promoted or get a better job in another agency.

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IMHO that is what is treasonous. No accountability.


27 posted on 02/14/2014 7:05:13 AM PST by Chickensoup (leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Mercat
She has voted for the winner now in every election for president since she was old enough to vote

Did she claim she voted for the winners before or after the election? I think she is just trying to keep the majority of her customers happy with the 'I voted for the winner' like the majority of her customers.

28 posted on 02/14/2014 7:06:31 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: Whenifhow

Thanks for those links. VERY informative. The GESTAPO arm of the U.S.A. - United Socialists of America.

You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html#SECTION_G022

DEPOPULATE socialists/totalitarians from the body politic. DISMANTLE their collectives/agencies.

It’s easy to…

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29 posted on 02/14/2014 7:07:39 AM PST by PGalt
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To: Starboard

“Its not really fraud but rather monumental mismanagement.”

I agree there is widespread incompetence and mismanagement in the IRS. But incompetence and mismanagement can explain only so much.

http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2012reports/201242081fr.pdf

Check out the Treasury report on the IRS. Note pages 18-20.
23,994 refunds for $46,378,040 were sent to one address. There are many other examples. And yet politicians and the MSM are not concerned. Just as they are not concerned about the IRS targeting conservative groups.


30 posted on 02/14/2014 7:10:46 AM PST by detective
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To: Chickensoup

I remember computer systems by the department of defense that they scrapped because after spending billions and never getting them to work, the hardware was obsolete.


31 posted on 02/14/2014 7:14:05 AM PST by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: detective

If you’re involved in the Tea Party, 9/12, or ANY other grassroots groups, the new IRS rules will make it ILLEGAL for you to:

Mention a candidate up for re-election within 60 days of an election. That includes every single member of the House of Representatives – you won’t be able petition your own representatives.
Register voters.
Call for the election or defeat of a political candidate.
Hold candidate forums so voters can decide who would best represent them.


32 posted on 02/14/2014 7:25:02 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Lockbox

No, she always tells me who she is voting for. If I were a betting woman, I would use her as the guide.


33 posted on 02/14/2014 7:27:14 AM PST by Mercat
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To: PGalt

”Smidgeon”, it depends on the meaning of it”, as POSOTUS was lead to the gallows.
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Since every lying denial out of Zero’s mouth means the exact opposite, “smidgen” really means that the IRS is totally corrupt and has been converted to his personal Gestapo to terrorize his enemies and gain political advantage.


34 posted on 02/14/2014 7:39:52 AM PST by iontheball
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To: detective

It’s just the Chicago way.


35 posted on 02/14/2014 7:42:11 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: KeyLargo; Nachum

new IRS rules will make it ILLEGAL for you to:
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Yet Unions can still organize!

5 Minutes
Dave Camp with Bill Hemmer
Of those that were audited, 100% were conservative groups.

The bill in congress would prevent IRS from finalizing the rule for a year.
Unions can still organize – 3:55 min

1st Amendment Under Attack - Treasury Looks To Limit Political Activities Of Tax Exempt Groups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-gykh5wofc

Camp: IRS Targeted Established Conservative Groups for Audits, Too

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/02/11/camp-irs-targeted-conservative-groups-for-audits/


36 posted on 02/14/2014 7:43:28 AM PST by Whenifhow
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To: detective
"embattled Internal Revenue Service"

Every time I see these words I laugh. Except for a few pesky people asking questions, the IRS is certainly not "embattled".

37 posted on 02/14/2014 7:45:41 AM PST by anoldafvet (If you think the government is capable of taking care of you, just look at the indian tribes)
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To: iontheball; detective; Whenifhow

Since every lying denial out of Zero’s mouth means the exact opposite, “smidgen” really means that the IRS is totally corrupt and has been converted to his personal Gestapo to terrorize his enemies and gain political advantage.

Exactly. Thanks for those additional links/comments.

Democrat Wilson’s GESTAPO IRS, Indirect-tax, money-devaluing, wealth-destroying Federal Reserve and business-controlling FTC have worked well for the United Socialists of America.

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38 posted on 02/14/2014 8:09:15 AM PST by PGalt
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To: detective

bump for later


39 posted on 02/14/2014 8:19:38 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Mercat

well she is going to be a great source of how the average person is viewing the Presidential races.


40 posted on 02/14/2014 10:15:22 AM PST by Lockbox
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