The IRS acts as, "or rather is", an unsavory collection agency whose upper echelon are little less than thugs, and who pressures its agents to keep up its quota's..........,>and their targets, "the working class", or middle America.........Another bureaucratic agency whose leader, or who "heads it" is a tax cheat, and a liar, crooked as the day is long, like the one before him, and the one before him..............How many years were involved in collecting a trillion off the backs of hard working Americans?. Yep, and it was all funneled into the pockets of the already filthy rich of corrupted financiers, bankers, hedgefunds, the cronies of AIG's insurance company, and motor city,etc etc, salaries and bonuses only lottery winners could be proud of.
Like you noted, all the suspicions, and what we all knew anyway was unveiled during those Congressional hearings. I'm sure no one was surprised by what was testified, it was already an accepted fact that their practices were mired in corrupt activity. Employee's and ex-employee's chose to hide behind partitions so not to become targets themselves. The IRS was once used by politicians as a vice, if they were approached in manners they wanted to keep private by anyone, and if they wanted to break the back of an individual they used the agency to make their lives an unlivable hell. Its still a tool, remember who Geitner works for and who sealed his nomination, just like the one before him and the one before him.
