Outrageous! Person chosen to lead 87,000 new IRS agents will make your blood boil

WND ^ | 08/28/2022 | Art Moore

[DFG]

The IRS official chosen to lead the new "centralized office" featuring the nearly 87,000 new employees funded in President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act was involved in the agency's targeting of conservative groups that opposed Barack Obama's reelection in 2012.

Nikole Flax served as the chief of staff for then acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller, who was fired amid a cover-up of the scandal. When Republican lawmakers sought communications related to the scandal in an investigation, Flax's emails were among those the agency claimed were lost in a computer hard-drive crash. The IRS, the lawmakers charged, was attempting to "cover up the fact that it conveniently lost key documents in the investigation."

On Friday, as the Daily Signal reported, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said in an email to employees that the agency will establish a "new, centralized office" to implement elements of the bill, including the nearly 87,000 new IRS agents. The partisan bill, signed without a Republican vote, provides $80 billion to the IRS, mostly to pay for the new agents through 2031.

[DFG]

https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/22/irs-to-set-up-centralized-office-for-87000-new-agents/

[Lurkinanloomin]

She already has the OJT from Lois Lerner.

[V_TWIN]

I’m hearing they can’t even fill the positions they already have....if they can’t do that where they gonna find 87k more people?

[Walrus]

I think Ms Flax should be the subject of a congressional investigation come January.

[Dr. Sivana]

Government agencies store files on servers. Servers might crash, but hard drives are in RAID arrays where the data is simultaneously written across multiple drives. IF the controller or OS were corrupted or if the file were "mistakenly" deleted, backups of any file that was on the drive at the end of the shift would be on one or more backups, depending on whether fulls (less common) or incrementals (most common) were being employed. Depending on the server and local policy, that backup would be present for two weeks to seven years or more. Government agencies tend to hold data for longer periods of time for statutory and policy reasons. Government agencies are also more likely to use tape, which is less convenient but less likely to be corrupted when it is stored in a robot or off-site.

Any story of a government agency larger than the Mayberry sheriif's department "losing" data due to a crash smells like cow manure, That goes for hospitals that like to "lose data" as well.

[rovenstinez]

I hope you can use MAN force and carries a gun.

[pgyanke]

The IRS, the lawmakers charged, was attempting to "cover up the fact that it conveniently lost key documents in the investigation."

Attempting? Looks like they succeeded. Thanks for nothing, GOP.

[kiryandil]

pro tip: don’t have a unique name.

[GaltAdonis]

Hey - Janet Reno would be a perfect fit - but she’s too old - 78.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Exactly. “Hard drive crash” gave me a laugh. Replace the crashed drive and bring it back into the RAID array by doing a re-sync from parity. Depending on the size...should take no more than a few hours.

[Gen.Blather]

Having helped set up new manufacturing facilities and hiring and training people, I can attest that hiring even a few hundred new people and getting to the point they can do a job is really difficult. Now, imagine you’re doing that in DC. Now throw a whole bunch of extras on like being EGBT compliant with diversity training and the whole liberal bible. They’ll be lucky to hire and train a few thousand people and it will be years before they are bringing in any additional money. Hopefully, a new administration will cancel the whole thing.

[plain talk]

Nicole Flax. She has a nice smile. Maybe she won't be so bad. :-)

[dynachrome]

“where they gonna find 87k more people?”

Empty the jails.

[doorgunner69]

As if anyone doubted the new IRS JBT hiring was for anything but opposition suppression.

[Secret Agent Man]

Many will be paid thugs. Probably will waive certain “requirements” if you are “diverse”.

[BenLurkin]

[Howie66]

Is Janet Reno still stealing air?

[adorno]

Advice to those getting hired as part of the new 87,000 IRS...

Don’t get too comfy on that job, and in fact, don’t take any of those jobs...

because...

if a republican congress and a republican president do come into power in the next two years, most or all of those positions will be gone. At best, they’ll be temporary positions, enough to gain experience to work in the private sector as tax advisers. But, don’t even bother with any new IRS jobs.

[oldasrocks]

Boy will we be in deep doo doo if we call a “diverse” thug the wrong pronoun.

Can we all just go ahead and call each other Comrade?

[antidemoncrat]

They will offer really good pay and try to attract the dregs of society that will gladly whack someone who asks them to show ID before letting them come into their home.