Thursday, May 23, 2013

IRS Thinks Your Emails Are Theirs For the Taking --Without A Warrant

Two of the headline scandals that have hit the Barack Obama administration in recent days could be about to come together – the IRS and the invasion by government of private communications.

At least that’s the way it looks, based on a report from the activist group ACLU, where staff attorney Nathan Wessler recently wrote that the most feared federal agency believes it has the right to access private emails....
...The Department of Justice has been gaining access journalist’s telephone records without telling them when it suspects a leak of information to the media.
Now comes the report from Wessler, who explained that the IRS long has held the position that it can obtain and read a person’s emails – essentially without permission, without a warrant and without even notification.

~Read more at WND

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