Kathianne
06-12-2013, 02:55 PM
also seems the IRS wanted spy equipment, when revealed backed off:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/12/house-committee-looks-into-irs-seizure-of-60-million-medical-records/
House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/12/house-committee-looks-into-irs-seizure-of-60-million-medical-records/#ixzz2W28igEfX
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.
“(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider’s corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” members of the committee wrote in a letter (http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/letters/20130611IRS.pdf) Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.
The letter to Werfel, which requires a response by June 25, comes on the heels of a lawsuit (http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/15/irs-sued-for-improperly-seizing-the-medical-records-of-10-million-americans/) filed by an unnamed health-care provider against the IRS in California Superior Court.
The lawsuit alleged that 15 IRS agents improperly stole medical records during search of the facility in March 2011, according to a report (http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/14/55707.htm) about the incident from Court House News.
The search warrant the agents were executing, the committee noted in citing the Court House News report, was allegedly limited to financial records of a former employee of the company, not medical records.
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On the spying equipment:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cancels-order-spying-equipment
Ignore the source, check the documents.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/12/house-committee-looks-into-irs-seizure-of-60-million-medical-records/
House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/12/house-committee-looks-into-irs-seizure-of-60-million-medical-records/#ixzz2W28igEfX
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider.
“(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider’s corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution,” members of the committee wrote in a letter (http://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/files/letters/20130611IRS.pdf) Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.
The letter to Werfel, which requires a response by June 25, comes on the heels of a lawsuit (http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/15/irs-sued-for-improperly-seizing-the-medical-records-of-10-million-americans/) filed by an unnamed health-care provider against the IRS in California Superior Court.
The lawsuit alleged that 15 IRS agents improperly stole medical records during search of the facility in March 2011, according to a report (http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/14/55707.htm) about the incident from Court House News.
The search warrant the agents were executing, the committee noted in citing the Court House News report, was allegedly limited to financial records of a former employee of the company, not medical records.
...
On the spying equipment:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cancels-order-spying-equipment
Ignore the source, check the documents.