Posted on 05/15/2013 8:52:29 AM PDT by Zakeet
The last scandal dampening rods just failed, and the reactor core at the Internal Revenue service may be about to blow. From Healthcare IT News:
The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges.According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging that some 60 million medical records from 10 million patients were stolen by 15 IRS agents. The personal health information seized on March 11, 2011, included psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual/drug treatment and other medical treatment data.
“This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents,” the complaint reads. “No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search.
“IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records,” it continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
I suspect the reason for the lag time was DUer’s hadn’t received their talking points.
Not a lot of original thinkers over there... or thinkers at all. They parrot the party’s line. But the line had to be focus grouped first, so the folks over there sat on their hands waiting... and waiting. I’m so thankful I’m not a liberal.
Thanks for sharing.
I've got to admit - that relationship is totally creepy... It's like the teens who have a crush on the Boston Bomber... something really sick about that.
nothing like this shocks me anymore... i just get more disgusted, if that's even possible
I don’t suppose any SCOTUS justices are on any of these IRS hit lists... One name in particular comes to mind. What’s that? The sound of puzzle pieces falling into place? This is surreal.
And when you do, talk about it in terms of how the abuse of power could affect people's parents and/or their kids and grandkids.. Everyone thinks they're immune from blackmail, especially if they've never sought counseling; had urinary or fecal incontinence; taken viagra because of ED; taken an SSRI to help with premature ejaculation; had a child who is suicidal or compulsively eats sofa cushions or was gang raped; or discovered in his 30s that he's actually the bastard child of his pedophile great uncle. (Did i think of everything potentially embarrassing? Lol!) Even if nothing is in the average facebook reader's past that would be embarrassng, they may have friends or family with closet secrets that would be very damaging if it became public. Surely even LIBERALS can relate to that.
By including family members, it makes people think more globally about the damage a Gestapo govt could do, not just to themselves, but to those they love.
Each person whose records were viewed should be notified!
Did I miss this on Drudge? If it isn’t there does that mean in Drudge’s MO that it isn’t yet fortified? I’m not being a smart aleck, but what does it generally mean if Drudge doesn’t cover it?
How are the useful idiots over at DU dealing with all of this? Anyone know?
They’re supporting all of it. The IRS targeting people for political beliefs, the WH grabbing media phone records,,,all of it.
I went over a few days ago, a few times. There were no articles on the IRS scandal.
Lots of threads about it at DU. All in support of the IRS, of course. Type IRS into their search bar.
I just popped into their home page. At the time I didn't see any listings.
I didn't use the search. I don't like staying there too long -- lol.
The folks at DU come across as kind of stupid - any chance most of DU is paid AstroTurf types? They parrot talking points - not much else...
Dems hired Occupy 'protesters' off of Craig's list - what if most DUers are paid hacks? I know dems - and dem elites - and they're not acting like the DUers on this issue.
Oh, geez. I thought this was a breaking story, but it’s two months old. Don’t expect the media to grab onto this.
Remember how Sarah Palin was slandered for CORRECTLY pointing out that there ARE DEATH PANELS IN OBAMACARE??? These people are EVIL!!!!!
Marxists the world over have eventually been recognized as evil, these should be no different.
The article is 2 months old in an IT publication......and no significant news outlet caught it until now???
WHERE are the journ-o-lists?????????
I know right?!!!!
The IRS needs these medical records so the obama government can list you as a mental patient and take away your guns.
I wonder how many of those 10 million were hollyweird performers.
ALL their medical records are now “leaked”.
Real ages, sexual diseases, abortions, “gender issues”, any anything else has them open to blackmail.
see roc hudson.
BARRY’S BOYS STRIKE AGAIN! How do we find out if we’re one of their victims??
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