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Patrick Leahy: “Does that mean--it just boggles the mind-- this goes way beyond the wildest dreams, for example, of J. Edgar Hoover.…”

On the recordNovember 20, 2004
Does that mean--it just boggles the mind-- this goes way beyond the wildest dreams, for example, of J. Edgar Hoover. Does that mean, for example, if somebody in the press criticizes the chairman or if a constituent wrote in and criticized some action of the chairman or, let us say, that some Member of Congress dared to vote against a bill of the chairman, their staff could just go and grab all their tax returns and then just give it to anybody and have no penalty? I realize this is not the old former Soviet Union, but this could possibly happen in America?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Discussing concerns over potential misuse of power regarding access to tax returns.

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