IRS official refuses to answer questions in congressional hearing
Posted on 02/26/2024 9:55:52 AM PST by xoxox
If the whistleblowers won't come to the journalist, then the journalist…
Poor Alex Mena. Among his revelations to his button-camera-wearing date was that, “It’s almost impossible to lose your job in the government.” No update forthcoming so far, but it seems probable that Mr. Mena will soon be available for work.
Since leaving Project Veritas, investigative journalist James O’Keefe has had a number of notable successes in getting high-placed government officials and others to open up about what they do. For his latest project, he sent a newly trained recruit to speak with Mena, who works in the IRS Criminal Investigations Unit.
Spoiler alert: Yes, the IRS does snoop through people’s private bank accounts. No, they don’t get a police warrant first. Is it constitutional? Mena doesn’t think so, but it's unlikely anyone will do anything about that because, in his words, the IRS is accountable only to the President and Congress, so it does as it pleases and fears no one.
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For another topic, I wrote:
Imagine . . .
AI gets a notion that an over-heating nuclear reaction is “normal.”
ChatGPT 5 comes out this year, too.
AI only does as it is programmed to do..............If it does something, it’s because somebody wanted it done...............
thank you again James OKeefe. though, i’m kinda glad now that OMG is not a deduction as was P Veritas :).
O’Keefe is one of the few that actually does real investigative reporting.
Almost all our corporate media is trash.
I feel sorry for this IRS guy. He seems to feel guilty for what he’s asked to do in the IRS. You know his career is over. Not the guy that showed up to work drunk and punched a co-worker which he mentioned, but he’s finished “for telling the truth” about NOTHING which should be a natiional security. They will dig up some reason. With 51,000 pages of CFR they can come up with something against anyone today, and they’ll make it sound really bad. Poor guy.
IRS agent is a Moron ?
“Yes, the IRS does snoop through people’s private bank accounts. No, they don’t get a police warrant first.”
Hearings.
Congress that passed the funding to give the IRS 80,000 new positions for armed agents is going to something???
What a joke!
Thanks Kevin McCarthy.
I worked for the IRS for 14 years, but that was 30+ years ago. I see nothing has changed. Many times I was ordered by managers to take some enforcement action against a taxpayer, that I knew was illegal. When I protested and refused the managers uniformly replied “We’re the IRS, we can do anything we want.”. I’m not a lawyer, but I had to pull out the U.S. Code and show them the section of the law that applied, and they told me to do it anyway.
bkmk
This reminds of a computer programming course I took on the naval base in Yokosuka in the early ‘80s. I will never forget what the instructor on the first day. He said that the great or terrible thing about computers is they do exactly what you tell them to.
Yeah I remember all that. The House needs to hold public hearings and get answers to specific questions on the record.
Names?
The IRS are cops...
“Back the Blue”
If you happen to suspect the IRS is looking at criminal actions, run don’t walk to an attorney and say absolutely nothing to them until you have an attorney and then let him speak.
Wouldn’t do any good. It’s been over 30 years, and when I did report other violations the Chief of Inspection, (IRS internal police) was in on it and didn’t do anything about it.
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