What happens now if a oversight committee member wants to visit a IRS office?
Hell, the UPS driver can get in!
Does everything stop! Grind to a halt while they cover up or hide every tax return in every in basket, or do you allow certain member access to their oversight charge with clearances.
I might be off base, but I think this is what they were trying to address, and the language was used to make a Big F'n deal of it.
I figure some explanations will be offered to explain when cooler heads prevail.
her=here......oops
The IRS uses standard procedures to insure that confidential documents are not just lying around where any schlub wandering in off the street can read them.
The best case that can be made for Istook is that he got bamboozled by IRS bureaucrats (who would presumably get some favor in return for opening the door to this political abuse). Even if that's true, he's responsible for legislative language introduced under his name, and his head needs to roll for it.