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IRS officials are really good at protecting their own privacy

By David Freddoso

Published May 15, 2017 5:47pm ET

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IRS officials are really good at protecting their own privacy — Two IRS employees (one current, one former) at the center of the scandal are trying to keep still more information about potential government wrongdoing out of the public sphere. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File) | J. David Ake

Remember that lawsuit against the IRS for targeting small conservative nonprofit applicants? You probably haven’t heard much lately about it. That’s because this case about egregious misconduct by the governments’ tax collectors has been going on forever at a snail’s pace, and that’s mostly because of egregious misconduct by the government lawyers involved.

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