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...confidentiality provisions to thwart congressional scrutiny of alleged misconduct. Citing Section 6103, IRS officials have refused to turn over confidential files about the Jordache affair and other cases. "We are handicapped from doing the oversight job that Congress has determined we should do," says Barnard, a conservative former banker...
...officials dismissed the whistle-blowers' cries of harassment. But in 1987 an independent IRS "grievance examiner" concluded, in a report obtained by TIME, that their complaints were justified. Nothing was done, however, until Barnard's subcommittee began asking questions in early 1988. The whistle-blowers were reinstated in their former positions, and Santella was forced to resign...
...officials involved in harassing the whistle-blowers was John McManus, who is also the subject of investigation by the subcommittee. McManus, a former deputy assistant commissioner of the IRS, was permitted to retire quietly from the agency in 1987 after a tax case against him was initiated. In April 1988, shortly after Barnard's subcommittee stumbled across his case, the IRS sent McManus a "notice of deficiency" seeking nearly $100,000 in back taxes and penalties...
Nevertheless, the IRS has warned agents who have been contacted by congressional investigators not to talk unless IRS attorneys are present. The agency's lawyers travel across the nation in tandem with congressional investigators and relay the witnesses' testimony to senior IRS officials in Washington. One key informant, a former IRS agent, claims that he has been audited repeatedly by the tax agency in retaliation for reporting corruption within its ranks. At next month's hearings, he plans to disclose how two Treasury Department attorneys visited him in December with what he interpreted as a warning that Gibbs...
...George Bush's first acts as President-elect was to announce that he would retain Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education. The move was widely applauded: in addition to being the highest-ranking Hispanic in the new Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...