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In another issue, the DOE made canisters for the transportation of nuclear weapons. The Army changed its mind about the canisters, but the DOE continued building them, to incorrect specs even.
Jan 30, 1997. Reuters/Yahoo reports that Sen. John Glenn issued a report on the DOE losing $500 mil of property. Included in this is $33 million in missing or unaccounted-for equipment at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site in Colorado, and 4,000 rounds of ammunition lost at the Savannah River facility in South Carolina.
WPTY-TV in Memphis, which obtained a list of equipment in the
Suburban, reported that seven M-16s, three MP-5s with 30-round
magazines, two M-79 grenade launchers and one 12-gauge shotgun was among
them. M-16s are basic American military assault rifles, and MP-5s are
shorter-barreled rifles. Also in the vehicle were 1,000 rounds of
ammunition for the M-16s, 3,000 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, 4,000 10 mm
rounds and two bulletproof shields, according to the broadcast report.
Source: CNN online
Mar 25, 1997. Government officials say the IRS singled out right-leaning groups for audits for political purposes, like the NRA, Heritage Foundation, and other conservative groups. The chairmen and ranking Democrats on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees asked staff to look into reports the IRS had done politically motivated audits. "It is possible that it is sheer coincidence that every group on the Clinton enemies list is being audited ... but it's also possible it's not," Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said.
Jun 5, 1997. When IRS agent Paula was auditing Carol Ward's (of Colorado Springs, CO) 1993 income taxes and said Carol owed $324,000, Carol replied: "Honey, from what I can see of your accounting skills the
country would be better served if you were dishing up
chicken-fried steak on some Interstate in West Texas, with all
the clunky jewelry and big hair." Four weeks later, the IRS conducted an armed raid known as a
"jeopardy assessment" against Ward and padlocked all three of
her stores, posting notices that led some customers to believe
that Ward was a drug smuggler. US District Court Judge William Downes awarded $250,000 to
Ward in a harshly worded 17-page opinion. The judge found
IRS agent James Dolan "grossly negligent" and wrote that Dolan
acted with "reckless disregard" for the law, including three false
statements issued while under oath. Judge Downes' decision
blasted the IRS for violating Ward's privacy rights and stated the
punitive damages award "gives notice to the IRS that
reprehensible abuse of authority by one of its employees cannot
and will not be tolerated." During a radio talk show week after the
settlement, IRS district director Gerald Swanson and aide
Patricia Callahan stated that Ward still owed $324,000 in taxes
-- even though they were well aware that the case had already
been settled. According to Ward, only two-thirds of the inventory and
equipment seized during the raid was returned, with a great deal
of the inventory in badly damaged condition.
Source: NY Times
Jul 22, 1998 Clinton signs the "IRS Reconstruction and Reform Act of 1998" grew out of a series of Capitol Hill hearings featuring taxpayers' horror stories of their high-handed treatment by the agency. Earlier this summer, the measure cleared both houses of Congress by wide measures: 96-2 in the Senate and 402-8 in the House. The new law includes the following provisions:
Jul 24, 1998 IRS Arming for WAR???
Letter from a Georgia constitute to Rep. Newt Gingrich From: Richard Bachert Subject: IRS Arming for WAR???
Sir,
It has come to my attention that IRS agents have been instructed to arm themselves with semi-automtic weapons and that the IRS is contracted with several vendors to obtain various specialized weapons and covert surveillance materials. Please see: Internal Revenue Service: Existing Contracts
For example, Remington Model 11-87 Shotguns (a $200,000 contract) are a special model made exclusively for the IRS, holding 8 cartridges instead of the normal legal limit of 3.
This page also documents contracts for equipment and services such as:
* Clock/Radio Audio Video Transmitters; $200,000; General Microwave Service, Inc.
* Semi-automatic Handguns; $1,000,000; Sigarms, Inc.
* Subminiature Audio Recorders & Playback Units; $1,000,000; Nagra USA
* Purchase and Support of Data Encryption Radios; $50,000,000; Motorola, Inc.
Why does Congress allow the IRS to arm so many of its agents so heavily against American citizens? Is it really necessary for the IRS to spy on American citizens? Is this part of the IRS reform legislation that was recently passed to make the IRS more responsive to taxpayers?
Also, this listing of current IRS contracts is posted under the SBA (Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization) section of the Treasury's website. This implies to me that huge corporations such as Motorola, Unisys, AT&T, Pacific Bell, and Remington are being treated as small and disadvantaged businesses. Is this correct? If so, why?
You can solve these IRS related problems and the increasing pressure to squeeze Americans -- and their freedoms -- by moving to the National Retail Sales Tax! Instead of attempting to intimidate and strong arm Americans with intrusive and abusive tactics -- all of which increase the growing gap between citizens and "their" (allegedly) government), those 110,000 IRS employees could get REAL jobs. Guarding our southern border springs to mind.
"Those who prevent PEACEFUL CHANGE invite violent revolution."
Your words, Newt, during a recent speech! I will appreciate your inquiry into these matters as my U.S. Representative.
Sincerely,
Dick Bachhert
Free Republic and IRS
Nov 30, 1998 NBC reports that in the Washington DC office, bicycle couriers are used to transport citizens' checks. Couriers are known to have criminal records, and sometimes they just lose bunches of checks. From a GAO report released today. The GAO also faulted IRS practices inside the processing centers. At two centers, the GAO said, "we observed numerous checks left on desks, shelves, or file folders in unsecured areas." At all four centers visited, the GAO found mail containing tax returns and checks "left in carts in open, unrestricted corridors or rooms." Wash. Post
Mar 2, 1999 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is plagued by slipshod accounting and sloppy controls on information that leave taxpayers and the government vulnerable to fraud and theft, congressional auditors said Monday. In a scathing audit of the IRS for fiscal 1998, Congress' General Accounting Office described a tax collecting agency that GAO auditor Gregory Kutz said was unable ``to do some of the basic accounting and record-keeping tasks'' it requires of taxpayers.
The GAO found tax returns with confidential data left open and accessible on desktops,
millions of dollars in checks and even cash transported by unarmed couriers and a computer
system loaded with sensitive information vulnerable to tampering.
Largely because of inadequate accounting, the audit said the IRS collected just $26 billion of
$222 billion in unpaid taxes by the September 30 end of last fiscal year, and said more than
half -- $119 billion -- would be written off.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in checks and even in cash were transported in unmarked
civilian vehicles -- or in one case on a bicycle -- by unarmed couriers before background or
fingerprint checks were run on them, it said.
Yahoo
news
Apr 23, 1999
20/20 reports on IRS going after whistleblower.
In a 20/20 report, Nancy Johnson's husband Steve cheated on his
business taxes after the business started to go bad. They divorced, he
died, leaving $500,000 in tax debt. Nancy was determined to be an
"innocent spouse" who had no knowledge of the tax problems by the Utah
tax commission. However, the IRS forced her to sell her house and
belongings, leaving her homeless. It seems the IRS in the Houston
district are particularly "mean people", says one IRS employee, Jenifer
Long.
Vicki Elizardo, also of the Houston district, says her boss wouldn't allow her to follow the new IRS
law and declare another couple a hardship case. Elizardo disagreed, and
was fired. Chuck White, her boss, refused to interview with 20/20.
Shortly after Long's interview, when her office found out she talked to 20/20, she was put on probation for 60 days, to
improve her performance or be fired.
20/20
Nov 16, 1998.
In two letters sent to USDA Secretary Dan Glickman by the National
Association of Federal Veterinarians, the group said a veterinarian
``was disciplined and forced to retire'' for refusing to certify cattle
as being from disease-free areas, the newspaper said.
Other veterinarians risk discipline for refusing to sign ``even the most
outrageous and obvious false statements,'' said William Hughes, a lawyer
for the group.
See Wash Post
"Today we can declare government is not the problem and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution."
"We need a new government for a new century humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves. A government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with less."
"Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values."
Existing education savings accounts allow as much as $500 in annual
contributions for higher education.
The legislation also included tax breaks for prepaid state tuition plans
and for employer-provided tuition assistance as well as a new literacy
program training teachers in reading methods such as phonics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1998-07/22/070r-072298-idx.html
16 officers were punished with official reprimands and other non-criminal punishment incident to the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 other Americans. Brown has what appears to be a .45 caliber gunshot wound on the top center of his head. It is a perfectly circular hole. There was clearly gross negligence on the part of airline crews. All the passengers died on impact except a stewardess. It takes over 11 hours for rescue teams to find the crash site, 10 degrees and 1.6 miles off course. She is taken by helicopter and dies enroute. An autopsy shows a three inch incision in her femoral artery, a main artery in the leg, which was sustained 3 hours after the cuts and bruises from the plane crash. Clinton orders all bodies cremated, so no autopsies can be performed. For the first time in history the Air Force orders there will be no safety investigation, a first step of looking into a plane crash. The plane engine maker is stunned. Air Force officials are stunned. IFOR-21, a 737, was the US 2nd best plane, second to Air Force One. Veteran Air Force mechanics say they have never seen a T-43 (the model of the plane) without a black box. A backup beacon was stolen days before the crash. 3 days after the crash, the chief maintenance supervisor was killed with a gunshot wound to the head. Officials labeled it a suicide.
Within hours of the crash, the Croatian Ministry of Transport announced that they had the black boxes. One and half days after the crash, Croatian TV (plus Russian and French TV) announced that the FDR (flight data recorder) and the CVR (cockpit voice recorder) were safely in the hands of U.S. Marines. The U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, also stated that a black box was on board. Later, the Pentagon brass stoutly disputed all this, stating that there were no black boxes aboard. See Ruddy news.
Quote from Zolatimes about Ron's medicine bag. Sentell came up to me when we were at Dover and said, "I've got something sensitive for you to photograph." And she brought this thing out that looked like a burrito to me. She called it an Indian magic kit. She said it was in the diplomatic pouch, and it belonged to Ron Brown. She had me photograph it. It was a chamois tied up and inside there was an arrowhead, a half-smoked cigarette, a feather, some red beads, and a couple of turquoise stones. So I took a picture of it closed, with a ruler for scale. And I took a picture of it open with the ruler. I asked her what she was going to do with it. She said, "Air Force Mortuary Affairs will hang onto it for 90 days, and if the family doesn't ask for it back, they will destroy it." Anyway, in June of 1997 there was an article in the New Yorker Magazine about Nolanda Hill. In it she talks about this Indian medicine kit. She's the one who gave it to Ron Brown. See also Loose Lips.... More odd facts:
12-2-98. Espy acquitted by a federal jury of all 30 counts of
accepting gifts and trying to cover it up.
Newsday
Mar 23, 1997. Mike Espy's former chief of staff, Ron Blackley, was indicted today for lying about receiving $22,000 from private business. He was indicted on 3 counts of lying. For each count he could be imprisoned for up to 5 years and pay a $250,000 fine.
Sep 9, 1997 Fowler states that Ickes ran the DNC fund raising for 1996. http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/09/thompson/ickes.blitzer/
Sep 19, 1997 WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Sep. 19) -- Florida businessman R. Warren Meddoff told senators today he was asked by former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Harold Ickes to shred documentation of a political solicitation. Several days after the Miami fund-raiser, Meddoff was contacted by Ickes about the possible donation. Following several conversations, Meddoff received an urgent request from Ickes for $1.5 million within the "next 24 hours." Meddoff's friend, Morgan, wanted the donations to be tax deductible, so Ickes faxed several ideas. "If possible, it would be greatly appreciated if the following amounts can be wired to the designated banks," Ickes wrote. The contribution didn't pan out, and, in his last call, according to Meddoff, Ickes asked that the faxed document be destroyed: "[Ickes] called me and very nicely said, 'I sent you that fax in error. I shouldn't have sent it, would you please shred it?'" http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/19/thompson/hearings.main/
Sep 26, 1997 Ickes says President Bill Clinton made fund-raising phone calls in 1994 from the White House residential quarters, according to testimony from a former top White House aide, CNN has confirmed. The president has said that he doesn't believe he made fund-raising calls from the White House but has also said that he can't rule out that he did. http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/09/26/fundraising.wrap/
Mar 8 1998. McDougal is found dead in prison surrounded by strange circumstances. He was about to testify against Clinton. (18 felony convictions.)
On Mar 7, 1998, McDougal was summoned to give a urine test. At 4:30pm
he could not. At 5:15pm, he was given a cup of water by a prison
official and told to sit down. The supervising officer also got a sack
lunch for him since he would miss the evening meal. (I assume McDougal
ate the lunch.) At 6:30 the 2 hour time limit for providing urine
expired. The supervising officer told the officer to give McDougal more
water and time. Another 60 minutes passed, the supervisor again told the
officer to give McDougal more water and more time. At 9pm the McDougal
told the officer he was getting dizzy. (Was the supervisor waiting for a
drug from the lunch to take affect?) The officer called the physician's
assistant. At 9:20 another officer took over and again called the PA.
The PAs replied they were busy and would get off at 10pm. A Dr. told the
PAs to take care of McDougal before they left but they did not. At
11:10pm, as he was being taken to another part of the prison, he vomited
a clear watery substance, then said he felt better.
Federal.com
11-25-98 A jury Monday found Susan McDougal not guilty of 9 charges of embezzlement and failure to file tax returns, but the legal troubles of the former business partner and friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton are far from over. McDougal was accused of stealing $50,000 from conductor Zubin Mehta and his wife, Nancy, while working as their bookkeeper and personal assistant between 1989 and 1992.
McDougal, 44, still faces a trial on contempt of court charges for
refusing to testify about President Clinton before the Whitewater grand
jury. That trial begins February 16 in Little Rock, Arkansas. On
unrelated charges, McDougal spent 18 months in jail for previously
refusing to testify before a Whitewater grand jury, and served 14 weeks
for fraud-related felonies involving a $300,000 loan. (4 felony
convictions.)
Allpolitics
In another issue, the DOE made canisters for the transportation of nuclear weapons. The Army changed its mind about the canisters, but the DOE continued building them, to incorrect specs even.
Jan 30, 1997. Reuters/Yahoo reports that Sen. John Glenn issued a report on the DOE losing $500 mil of property. Included in this is $33 million in missing or unaccounted-for equipment at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons site in Colorado, and 4,000 rounds of ammunition lost at the Savannah River facility in South Carolina. Here's the story.
Sep 18, 1997. At issue are allegations that she accepted a bribe from a controversial Democratic campaign fund-raiser. The allegations stem from an October 1995 meeting O'Leary held with a Chinese business executive. That meeting was arranged with the help of Johnny Chung. Chung said the meeting was the result of a $25,000 gift he made to O'Leary's favorite charity. CNN.
Oct 1996. Reno refuses to appoint an IC (independant counsel) to investigate Wen Ho Lee's downloading of sensitive nuclear files to an unsecured computer, which had had 300+ break ins, at the Los Alamos Laboratory.
1997. Other Justice officials refused to give the FBI a wiretap for Wen Ho Lee in Los Alamos.
Dec 1997. Reno decides not to appoint an independant counsel to investigate the fund raising scandal of Clinton over Louis Freeh's (present FBI director) objections.
July 1998 Charles LaBella submits a report to Reno recommending an IC be created to look into fund-raising abuses by the Democrats in the 1996 election cycle.
Aug 10, 1998. "My published words point out that when Lanny Davis called me to "vet" Reno's A.G. nomination, "I gave Davis information, which could be corroborated by multiple sources wholly independent of me, that Reno was unfit to practice law, let alone serve as this country's top cop." The Wall Street Journal would not have printed these incendiary words if they did not already know from their own sources what I and others know: Reno uses call girls for sex and has a string of drunk driving incidents, which can be substantiated by following leads provided to the FBI field personnel who not surprisingly did a phony background check while William Sessions was FBI Director. You know full well why Sessions did not want to ruffle this Administration's feathers: job maintenance." (Open letter from Jack Thompson to FBI Director Freeh, Aug 10, 1998. Jackpeace@aol.com)
Nov 25, 1998. Reno decides not to appoint an IC to investigate Gore's fundraising antics.
Nov 30, 1998 Reno delays by 60 days, her decision on whether to create an IC for Ickes Democratic fund-raising. In the Clinton, Gore and Ickes matters, Reno was thought to have the strongest case against Ickes. CNN
Dec 5, 1998. Reno aides advise her not to create an independant counsel to investigate Clinton's fundspending tactics, when he used party funds to fund TV ads just for himself and Gore. This is illegal. But the FBI still says an IC is needed. On Dec 7, she decides not to create an IC. She says "there are no reasonable grounds to believe that further investigation is warranted."
Jan 1997. A Florida couple used a CB scanner to record cellular phone conversations Newt Gingrich was having with other GOP members. They recorded one conversation and handed the tape to a Democrat. The couple claims it happened by accident. CB experts say it would take numerous modifications to the scanner in order to hear a cellular phone call and the person would have to really know what they are doing.
Others say the minimum wages only affects teenagers, who make up a good part of the minimum wage work force. The minimum wage was never intended to support families, it was intended to be a starting wage for entry-level jobs and for teenagers working for money to pay for their car, college, etc.
Independant Counsels, cost and investigator
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