I’ve had a number of friends, in and around Federal IT, say that the way to crack this is to subpoena the list of IRS IT vendors, start calling in their staff (from the execs down to the systems developers and administrators), putting them under oath and demanding answers under threat of Contempt of Congress and perjury.
Very little can actually be done about Federal staff (both political and career) that dig in their heels and refuse to testify. But businesses, and non-Fed government contractors with their professional reputations on the line, are a completely different matter.
(imho) is the best route to stop this cover-up.
oh and is the best route to see where Congress stands as a whole and to determine if all is lost ....
Send your suggestions to Trey Gowdy or Louie Gohmert or another like-minded, liberty loving congressman/woman! There are some good “fixes” in the conversation on this thread!
Tanknetter is correct ,, this must target vendors or it will go nowhere.. The datacenter I mentioned had (back then anyway) huge IRS data storage contracts and Bureau of Indian Affairs contracts ,, even 30 years ago this would have been unthinkable.
IBM has a great education center in the D.C. area that has experts that can be called ,, if “Cookie” is still teaching there get her.
Fom June 2013
IRS Official Takes the Fifth Over IBM Contract
http://www.chrissstreetandcompany.com/irs-official-takes-ibm-contract.html
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal heated up today when Greg Roseman, Washington D.C. Metro Area Contracting Officer and Deputy Director of the IRS, invoked his constitutional Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid answering questions in front of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to determine if he fraudulently steered $500 million in IRS computer contracts to a $250,000 a year company fronting for IBM.