Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Channeling Nixon. Again. Still.

Feds admit improper scrutiny of candidate, donor tax records, Justice declines to prosecute.
The Treasury Department has admitted for the first time that confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were improperly scrutinized by government officials, but the Justice Department has declined to prosecute any of the cases.
Its investigators also are probing two allegations that the Internal Revenue Service “targeted for audit candidates for public office,” the Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, has privately told Sen. Chuck Grassley.
In a written response to a request by Mr. Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Mr. George said a review turned up four cases since 2006 in which unidentified government officials took part in “unauthorized access or disclosure of tax records of political donors or candidates,” including one case he described as “willful.” In four additional cases, Mr. George said, allegations of improper access of IRS records were not substantiated by the evidence.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahhh...the "Just-Us" department strikes again.

Rule of men; not rule of law.

Anonymous said...

Nixon was a saint compared to this one

Anonymous said...

Eventually people are going to start questioning why they have to obey the law when the federal government clearly does not feel constrained to do so. That is precisely the sort of scenario where Vigilance Committees can be effective.