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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>On Behalf Of </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Web's Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:11 AM, spike <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>We always worried about the president becoming a dictator. Turns out all<br>along it was the head of the IRS who had that power, and who promptly abused<br>it. That power is still there, waiting for the next person to abuse it. It<br>is all just astonishing, appalling.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>If you really believe that, consider the power the<br>heads of other major federal agencies have<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ja, but as far as I know the IRS is the only agency which has the power to deeply impact you personally, by calling you in for an audit. If they decide they don’t like you for whatever reason, I know of no avenue of appeal. You eventually die in prison, far from cryonics facilities, as did Al Capone. You are put on the same list with those sorts of bad guys. As far as I can tell, your claim that you didn’t even make any actual money doesn’t mean there is any existing branch of government that can or will attempt to overrule the decision. Lois Lerner has demonstrated that the IRS is a naked singularity of power.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Now consider the President's job through this<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>lens<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Considering recent revelations, the president becomes nearly irrelevant. She has the theoretical power to pardon someone jailed on IRS charges, but I have not heard of that actually happening. The president has all kinds of constitutional checks and balances on her office. It appears to me the IRS, which came along later, is operating completely without those checks and balances, as demonstrated a month ago: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-lois-lerner-takes-fifth-shuns-congress/">http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-lois-lerner-takes-fifth-shuns-congress/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>She still has not testified. This establishes that the only consequences for an IRS director abusing power is an indefinitely paid leave, and a generous paycheck it is at that level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>We could argue that this makes the IRS director more powerful than the presidency, for the president cannot order the IRS to do anything. If they do, they risk getting caught, and there definite repercussions to that, as we are seeing with the current president. But the IRS can act unilaterally without answering to anyone, even congress. The fifth amendment covers the 16<sup>th</sup> amendment but the 16<sup>th</sup> trumps the entire document.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>