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Senate Democrats are currently outraged by something that they read about in the news.
A group of Democratic senators wants the Justice Department to investigate several tax prep companies after an investigation the lawmakers launched concluded the companies shared reams of taxpayers’ personal and financial information with Meta.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and others accuse H&R Block, TaxSlayer and TaxAct of having embedded code in their Web sites known as “pixels” that allowed their users’ sensitive tax data to be shared with Meta — the parent company of Facebook —and Google.
Okay, but if we’re investigating sensitive tax data being shared with outsiders, let’s start with ProPublica.
ProPublica, the slimy leftist activist group set up by one of the scammers who helped cause the recession in the previous decade, has gotten a lot of attention for its campaign against conservative Supreme Court justices (by some farfetched coincidence, ProPublica gets funding from groups that want to pack the court) had previously made headlines for obtaining “users’ sensitive tax data” and then publishing it as part of a lefty campaign about taxes.
It’s traditional in media circles to describe stolen information as a “leak” when it’s published by their side, but federal tax data being published should have occasioned a DOJ probe.
Attorney General Merrick Garland promised that it would be a top priority.
Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers Wednesday that investigating the source of a massive leak of taxpayer information behind an article by investigative news outlet ProPublica will be one of his top priorities.
“I promise you, it will be at the top of my list,” Garland assured Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, during a budget hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“Senator, I take this as seriously as you do. I very well remember what President [Richard] Nixon did in the Watergate period — the creation of enemies lists and the punishment of people through reviewing their tax returns,” Garland said. “This is an extremely serious matter. People are entitled, obviously, to great privacy with respect to their tax returns.”
That was back in 2021. How’s that investigation going?
In 2022, House Republicans asked how the investigation is going.
“Despite repeated efforts by Ways and Means Committee Republicans, the American people remain in the dark about who was responsible and how the Treasury Department allowed this to happen,” Republicans wrote Thursday in their letter to Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen.
Signed on were Ways and Means’ top Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas and GOP members Texas Rep. Jodey C. Arrington and Tennessee Rep. David Kustoff.
If Republicans take control of the House in next month’s midterm elections, the taxpayer data leak could become a bigger focus next year. One of the Republicans running to take over from Brady, who is retiring, as the panel’s top GOP member — Missouri Rep. Jason Smith — pressed Yellen on the issue during a June hearing and named it as a matter he’d perform “aggressive oversight” on if he holds the committee gavel.
I’m sure the information will show up around the time we learn who leaked the Dobbs decision. But this should be something the DOJ should take on even as the media will cry that it’s prosecuting whistleblowers.
Either personal tax data is private or it’s fair game for the public.
This is ALL About”CONTROL”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
crooks and liars
This is yet ANOTHER reason why I’ve been advocating for a SCORCHED EARTH policy for the next R President! EVERYONE who had a part in the CONSPIRACY to Remove PRESIDENT TRUMP from office and obstruct his policies should be arrested on DAY ONE and placed in the same cells as the DAY ONE PARDONED Jan 6th Political Prisoners! There should be the SAME conditions – NO BAIL – NO TRIALS SET – NO RIGHTS!! All the trials should be before TRUMP appointed Judges with RED STATE JURIES! All cells fully equipped with “Epstein Escape Ropes”!! If we don’t END the deep state and their allies then it will be another “biden” somewhere down the road and the same OBSTRUCTION as before! Use THEIR precedents and CLEAN HOUSE!
I’m pretty sure there’ve been lots of trials of the “Jan 6th Political Prisoners.” You should look it up.
I’m pretty sure you take it up the ass.
Oh. And don’t look up there.
Here we go again. When Republican lawmakers see a problem, they write letters. This, they say,will take care of it. Then they go back to their watering holes and congratulate each other for their teamwork. This is
shown by yesterdays questioning of Christopher Wray.. Mr. FBI boss fumbled thru his answers saying he
can’t talk talk about this as it’s being investigated or plead ignorance of what was going on. Three or four Repubs
came down on Mr Wray(even Mr Letter writing hero Jim Jordan asked good,hard questions-Shock)
This is why Mr Wray answers like he does -because he knows letters will be written.
To answer the question posed by the column’s sub-headline, well, he lied. Not uncommon for him or any member of this administration.
Are there enough qualified patriotic Americans to fill the bureaucracy once all the felons are evicted? The sheer size of the bureaucracy has to be reduced in any case. By some miracle, SCOTUS might someday ban administrative law,
That’s a good point. Only about half of them, if that many, need to be replaced after you fire them all.