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Wapo is at it again ... "Confidential draft IRS memo"

Posted on: May 22, 2019 at 07:05:44 CT
Sal CMSU
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essentially stating all tax returns have to be given to congress without reason. However, they were forced to provide these pieces:

"The IRS said the memo, titled “Congressional Access to Returns and Return Information,” was a draft document written by a lawyer in the Office of Chief Counsel and did not represent the agency’s “official position.” The memo is stamped “DRAFT,” it is not signed, and it does not reference Trump.'

"Precisely who wrote the memo and reviewed it could not be learned. The agency says IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and current chief counsel Michael Desmond, who was confirmed by the Senate in February, were not familiar with it until a Post inquiry this week. The IRS says it was never forwarded to Treasury."

So the WAPO receives the memo from anonymous sources, an anonymous "lawyer" wrote it, it's not the official position of the IRS, and nobody of importance knew about it.

Solid reporting here ... don't verify anything but go ahead and toss it out to further a narrative. It's hilarious that the memo essentially rebuts Mnuchin's statements word for word, but was supposedly written last fall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/confidential-draft-irs-memo-says-tax-returns-must-be-given-to-congress-unless-president-invokes-executive-privilege/2019/05/21/8ed41834-7b1c-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?utm_term=.5acebd2e31fe

Edited by Sal at 07:07:50 on 05/22/19
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Wapo is at it again ... "Confidential draft IRS memo" - Sal KC - 5/22 07:05:44




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