Posted on 03/21/2014 6:19:14 AM PDT by CaptainK
The Internal Revenue Service, already facing accusations that its workers improperly snooped through tax files, has hired a former police officer convicted just a few years ago of illegally accessing FBI records and providing information to a subject of a counterterrorism investigation involving an infamous al Qaeda figure.
Mohammad Weiss Rasool, or Weiss Russell as he is known at the IRS, was sentenced to two years of probation in 2008 after pleading guilty in federal court to illegally accessing the FBI's National Crime Information Center database to run license tag numbers for a friend he thought was being followed. That friend, it turned out, was the subject of an undercover FBI operation and a close associate of the al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Islamist militant who preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers and inspired the Fort Hood shootings, according to court records and interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Terrorist sympathizers meet the IRS.
"There is a den of venomous Islamic snakes occupying northern Virginia and at some point it will have to be rooted out. However, to have this individual now working in the IRS with such sensitive access is disturbing. Mr. Rasool, who is still at the IRS and goes by the name “Weiss Russell,” is a felon who should have been deported after completing his sentence."
Source:
http://allenbwest.com
Two years probation?...the rest of my comment is self censured!
First name says it all
Roger on the self censured. One of these days, one of these days.
Obama has implanted them throughout the cia, fbi, doj,pentagon, white house, and now irs... WHY?
So what’s the problem? This guy sounds like a perfect fit for the IRS.
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