MOOSERIDER magazine: We need Accountants because of the IRS. Miller thinks the IRS is not accountable! Tables turn on IRS, lawmakers grill outgoing agency chief at heated hearing

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Sunday, May 19, 2013

We need Accountants because of the IRS. Miller thinks the IRS is not accountable! Tables turn on IRS, lawmakers grill outgoing agency chief at heated hearing

The absolute sense of ARROGANCE that gave off its putrid odor was the first thing everyone, and I mean everyone, who saw Miller's testimony, said about this low life, about to "retire," IRS Commissioner.
We witnessed the head of a totalitarian agency that will and does absolutely torture and ruin people, their families and all their lives without compunction, hesitation or a sense of decency. It seems to relish in its power to wreck the citizen's. The American gestapo has engendered such a hoodoo of fear throughout the county, that the people fear to mention its name! m/r

Tables turn on IRS, lawmakers grill outgoing agency chief at heated hearing | Fox News

May 17, 2013

FoxNews.com

For the first time in years, the IRS was knocked down a peg or two.

In a hearing that escalated into a boisterous public shaming of one of the country's most-feared government agencies, lawmakers took turns Friday calling outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on the carpet for his department's scandalous practice of targeting conservative groups.

Miller rebuffed attempts to extract the names of those responsible, saying he did not know. But lawmakers vowed that the tense hearing would mark only the start of a series of investigations, in which criminal activity could be probed.

Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., seemed to capture the angst against the agency toward the end of the hours-long hearing, as he described the ways its agents are capable of ruining lives.