Background The below documents were discovered after searching emails for the following keywords: “The Black Vault”, “John Greenewald” etc. The reasoning at that was fairly simple, but I did not expect the discovery that ...
Tag Archives: Internal Revenue Service
IRS Spoof Video of Donald Trump and ‘The Apprentice’
Background The Internal Revenue Service created a video parody of Donald Trump’s television show “The Apprentice” which was broadcast at a 2011 conference held by the IRS’s Small Business/Self-Employed Division (SB/SE). The video features a group ...
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Internal FOIA Status Reports
Background Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, gives any person the right to access federal agency records or information. The FOIA is based on the presumption that the government and its information belong to the people. A ...
IRS Congressional Liaison Officer Leonard Oursler Emails Regarding Donald Trump (October 2016 – February 2017)
Background According to the IRS: Leonard Oursler began his service with the IRS in October of 1997. His first position was leading a newly formed Congressional Outreach team in Legislative Affairs. In 2001 Leonard became the Chief of the ...
Inside the IRS E-Mails: Abolish the IRS
Background One interesting use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), is crafting the request to search for certain keywords, sent to and/or from government officials. For example, in 2015, when the Republican Presidential primary was at ...
