While Matt Taibbi was on the witness stand at a recent congressional hearing, the IRS camped out on his doorstep at home. It seems that our present administrative regime isn’t above using heavy handed scare tactics to intimidate witnesses.
IRS pays a chilling visit
The IRS seems to be working like Joe Biden’s Gestapo. Over at Reclaim The Net, they observed: “It’s as if various US government agencies have never heard of the expression, ‘when in a hole, stop digging:’ not only are some of the most powerful ones, like the FBI, accused of involvement in online censorship, but now the IRS is suspected of trying to intimidate a journalist presenting those revelations.”
Matt Taibbi is beginning to learn how hazardous the life of an independent journalist can be when the truth starts creeping out into the light.
Taibbi has been “going through internal Twitter documents to produce the scandalous Twitter Files, which show how the private social media company and the government cooperated (aka, colluded) to carry out censorship.”
The very day Matt Taibbi testified before the @Weaponization Committee, the IRS showed up at his house.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) March 28, 2023
Wall Street Journal broke the news, describing the visit to Taibbi’s house as “a very strange house call.” The timing was especially suspicious. An agent of the IRS came to his house while he was on the stand.
Taibbi knew he was a target of the Democrats but never expected heat from the Infernal Revenue Service. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan had steam coming from his ears when he heard the news. Jordan is demanding “an explanation about the unannounced home visit.”
He wrote a nasty letter on Monday, March 27, to IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to give them a piece of his mind over the incident.
Witness intimidation
Jordan writes that he’s suspicious that “this might be a case of attempted witness intimidation.” On March 9, “just as Taibbi was testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, speaking about evidence of the government using pressure to make sure major tech companies censored content, the IRS agent was at his door in New Jersey.”
They left him a little note taped to his door, “asking him to contact them.”
Taibbi finds it rather disturbing that the IRS wants to talk to him about a couple of his tax returns. What really has him rattled is when they admit it has nothing to do with money. Now that he’s exposing Deep State shadow government censorship and conspiracy, the revenuers went scavenging through his old returns.
bet you didn't know that JOURNALIST Matt Taibbi that reports on the "Twitter Files" was visited by the IRS to his home.
Intimidation? Political target?
Looks like conspiracy theorists might be 170-0 again.
If this doesn't wake you up, you are dead from within. pic.twitter.com/PQOSdzv5AC
— Petey B (@realpeteyb123) March 28, 2023
The tax accountants allege “that the journalist’s tax filings for 2018 and 2021 were rejected over identity theft fears.” Funny how they waited until he was on a witness stand to mention it. Another thing that has everyone wondering, is why not just give him a jingle on the phone or send a notice in the mail?
That’s why Jim Jordan is hopping mad. As his letter to the IRS honchos spells out, the “circumstances surrounding the IRS’s unannounced and unprompted visit to Mr. Taibbi’s home, at the exact time that he was testifying to Congress about ‘the most serious‘ government abuse he has witnessed in his career as a journalist, are incredible.”
Especially because “he had never received any prior indication of any issues with his 2018 return.” Since they’re getting shady, Jordan is demanding the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department “hand over all documents pertaining to the IRS agent’s visit to the journalist’s home, as well as other documents and communications about Taibbi.“
