Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Who guards the people from the "guardian" governmental officials? Another example of our guardians using the power we give them to abuse us rather than guard us from abuse.

The IRS and its defending attorneys, the US Justice department, has been harshly criticized by a US Appeals Court for abusing its powers and abusing the public:

"Writing for the unanimous three-judge appellate panel, Judge Raymond Kethledge observes that mandamus is “an extraordinary remedy reserved to correct only the clearest abuses of power by a district court.” The appeals judges not only found no such abuse; they ordered the IRS to comply with Dlott’s orders. The ruling closes by strongly suggesting that the Justice Department lawyers representing the IRS have been acting in bad faith:

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation’s interests and enforcing its laws—all of them, not just selective ones—in a manner worthy of the Department’s name. The conduct of the IRS’s attorneys in the district court falls outside that tradition. We expect that the IRS will do better going forward. And we order that the IRS comply with the district court’s discovery orders of April 1 and June 16, 2015—without redactions, and without further delay."

The Washington Times’s Stephen Dinan sums up the finding: “A federal appeals court spanked the IRS Tuesday, saying it has taken laws designed to protect taxpayers from the government and turned them on their head, using them to try to protect the tax agency from the very tea party groups it targeted.”

For full details see the following article titled "IRS Chutzpah":

http://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-chutzpah-1458753909?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb