Hot Air puts a question mark on their headline,
but I won’t. The IRS and God knows
who else clearly retaliated against a DHS whistleblower and targeted him for an
audit . . . in which they ripped him off:
[P.
Jeffrey Black] had taken a long list of complaints to lawmakers about how the
air marshals service was run, ranging from problems keeping marshals on flights
to allegations of ineptitude and favoritism by managers. The same year he
retired, he appeared in “Please Remove Your Shoes,” a documentary critical of the
airline security measures travelers endure on every trip.
Then
came the audit, which an Internal Revenue Service agent told him about the same
day the movie premiered — “almost to the hour,” he said.
The
year-long investigation included the placement of a $24,000 lien against his
home. In the end, the IRS found out Black owed them $480 — while the government
owed him $8,300.
Black
paid his $480; the government never paid him, saying the statute of limitations
had run out.
And this is no isolated case. The Obama regime has a long and sordid
record of going after pesky whistleblowers, even Inspectors General:
Barack Obama's proxies have
threatened Inspectors General on more than one occasion. Gerald Walpin
ran afoul of the Obama team when he dared to report that a friend of Obama's
was misusing government funds for personal expenses, meddled politically in a
local election, and may have
included hush money to women to keep them quiet about sexual
harassment by him. What were Walpin's rewards for protecting taxpayers? His dismissal
followed by heaps of personal abuse and accusations of mental illness.
He has company.
The Inspector General at the OMB
who reported on Obama's plans to slash his budget was told by officials there
that they'd "make life
miserable for him" if he complained about his budget being cut.
The Special Inspector General for
Afghanistan Reconstruction reported
that administration officials had pressured him to remain silent regarding the
massive waste of funds and corruption associated with the program and that
officials had tried to edit his report to remove anything that might embarrass
the White House (presaging the Benghazi scandal). The abuse led to his
resignation.
The aforementioned Neil Barofsky
was subject to scathing personal attack for exposing and disclosing massive
waste and fraud in the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Jen Psaki, a
spokeswoman for the 2008 campaign who had become the deputy communications
director at the White House, engaged in such personal vituperation that it
shocked old Washington hands. She accused Barofsky
of trying to generate "false controversy" to "grab a few cheap
headlines" and then continued with similar personal insults of Barofsky.
Psaki has been rewarded for
faithfully serving as an Obama attack dog by being promoted to the high-profile
and prestigious spot as State Department spokeswoman. . .
But
of course.
This
all fits in too well with what I wrote on Monday about government by thugs.
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