"We support this.
How else could McCain find conservatives and TEA PARTY members
to attack by IRS audit?"
Posted on 04/18/2015 6:13:25 AM PDT by markomalley
The SEC and IRS, among other government agencies, love, love, love administrative subpoenas to snoop through emails without probable cause. Techdirt writes:
The story that we keep hearing is that two government agencies in particular really like ECPA's outdated system: the IRS and the SEC. Since both only have administrative subpoena power, and not the ability to issue warrants like law enforcement, the lower standards of ECPA make it much easier for them to snoop through your emails without having to show probable cause. Last year, in a Congressional hearing, the SEC's boss, Mary Jo White, was questioned about this by Congressman Kevin Yoder, who has been leading the charge on ECPA reform. As we reported at the time, in the conversation, White clearly said that the SEC needed this ability or it would lose "critical" information in its investigations.
The practice is very widespread. For example, see below that the Georgia Department of Labor has placed an ad for a subpoena specialist. Feel safe though: Candidates must have a high school diploma.
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"We support this.
How else could McCain find conservatives and TEA PARTY members
to attack by IRS audit?"
The IRS reads what I write on my computer? Let’s see if they can break this code. They have all those government supercomputers.
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..where is all the “privacy” wingnuts who went bonkers over issues in the middle 70’s?...(Privacy Act of 1974)
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“..where is all the “privacy” wingnuts who went bonkers over issues in the middle 70’s?...(Privacy Act of 1974)”
Dead?
They're the ones in power now, doing the snooping...
Yesterday's hippies (Obama, Holder, Pelosi, etc.) are today's leftists in charge.
Thats the same face McCain used in the Hanoi Hilton to psyche out the VC.
Ah, Dude, that's so 70's! ; )
East Germany and the Stazi got nothing on this gang of thugs.
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A democrat is in office now, so it’s ok for gubmint to snoop- but as soon as a republican takes office, it will be not ok again
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