{"id":1758,"date":"2014-11-18T13:59:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2014-11-18T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:59:22","slug":"how-the-irs-and-department-of-homeland-security-are-expanding-undercover-work-irs-agents-can-even-pose-as-clergy-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"How the IRS and Department of Homeland Security are Expanding Undercover Work (IRS Agents Can Even Pose as Clergy) | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/11\/17\/how-the-irs-and-department-of-homeland-security-are-expanding-undercover-work-irs-agents-can-even-pose-as-clergy\/\">How the IRS and Department of Homeland Security are Expanding Undercover Work (IRS Agents Can Even Pose as Clergy) | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\" data-para-count=\"427\" data-total-count=\"6524\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\">Those guidelines apply only to the law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department. Within the Treasury Department,\u00a0undercover agents at the I.R.S., for example, appear to have far more latitude than do those at many other agencies.\u00a0I.R.S. rules\u00a0say that, with prior approval, \u201can undercover employee or cooperating private individual may pose as an attorney, physician, clergyman or member of the news media.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\" data-para-count=\"373\" data-total-count=\"9215\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\">Across the federal government, undercover work has become common enough that undercover agents sometimes find themselves investigating a supposed criminal who turns out to be someone from a different agency, law enforcement officials said. In a few situations, agents have even drawn their weapons on each other before realizing that both worked for the federal government.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\" data-para-count=\"373\" data-total-count=\"9215\">&#8211; From the\u00a0<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: inherit;\">New York Times<\/em>\u00a0article:\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/16\/us\/more-federal-agencies-are-using-undercover-operations.html?_r=0\">More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\" data-para-count=\"297\" data-total-count=\"297\">If this article doesn\u2019t prove to you without a shadow of a doubt what the prosecutorial priorities of the U.S. federal government are I don\u2019t know what will. I have been railing for years on this site about how the rule of law is dead and buried in the USA. How the \u201cjustice\u201d system is targeting average citizens for non crimes, while allowing the large\u00a0financial criminals responsible for destroying the global economy to get off on DPAs, or deferred prosecution agreements originally crafted to deal with juveniles (see:\u00a0<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"><a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #3473a6; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;\" title=\"Permanent Link to The U.S. Department of Justice Handles Banker Criminals Like Juvenile Offenders\u2026Literally\" href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/11\/14\/the-u-s-department-of-justice-handles-banker-criminals-like-juvenile-offenders-literally\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The U.S. Department of Justice Handles Banker Criminals Like Juvenile Offenders\u2026Literally<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\" data-para-count=\"297\" data-total-count=\"297\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the IRS and Department of Homeland Security are Expanding Undercover Work (IRS Agents Can Even Pose as Clergy) | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Those guidelines apply only to the law enforcement agencies overseen by the Justice Department. Within the Treasury Department,\u00a0undercover agents at the I.R.S., for example, appear to have far more latitude than do those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1227,432,443,765],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-homeland-security","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}