Ted Stevens Gets Raided

Wonder of the found a big bunch of guilty e-mails clogging up the Senator's Internet "tubes?"

(In case you missed, Stevens once said, in a speech about Net-neutrality, that a reason there should be different levels of Internet service, coz as it is, there is simply too much stuff on the Internet and it's causing all those tubes to get clogged.... or something like that. Utter stupidity, nonetheless.

FBI, IRS Search Home of U.S. Sen. Stevens, Who Has Been Scrutinized in Corruption Probe

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AP News

Jul 30, 2007 18:57 EDT

Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service on Monday searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an official said.

Investigators arrived at the Republican senator's home in Girdwood shortly before 2:30 p.m. Alaska time, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant special agent.

Heller said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation.

The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation.

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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.

IRS tracked taxpayers’ political affiliation

How very Nixonian of them!

Now who the hell ordered such a thing and for what purpose?

IRS tracked taxpayers’ political affiliation | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA:

WASHINGTON – As it hunted down tax scofflaws, the Internal Revenue Service collected information on the political party affiliations of taxpayers in 20 states.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of an appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the IRS, said the practice was an “outrageous violation of the public trust” that could undermine the agency’s credibility.

IRS officials acknowledged that party affiliation information was routinely collected by a vendor for several months. They told the vendor last month to screen the information out.

“The bottom line is that we have never used this information,” said John Lipold, an IRS spokesman. “There are strict laws in place that forbid it.”

Washington state residents do not express a party preference when they register to vote. Residents of 20 other states and the District of Columbia have to provide a party affiliation when registering. Voter registration information is publicly available.

Murray said she learned about the problem from the president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelly. The IRS is part of the Treasury Department.