Talk about Surveillance Nation. Candid Camera, 24/7. Everywhere.

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CNSNews.com asked IRS spokesmen to explain the reasoning behind
the solicitation, where the surveillance equipment will be used,
why the request was so urgent, ...
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Simple.

The IRS wants to covertly record you when you get called in for an
audit.

So the next time you get called in for an audit (which applies to most
of you reading this, since many of you are sole-proprietor /
self-employed / landlords) make sure you look straight into the potted
plant in the corner of the room just behind the IRS agent - and smile as
your gov't financially rapes you so it can raise funds for more illegal
wars.

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IRS Buying Spying Equipment: Covert Cameras in Coffee Trays, Plants

(CNSNews.com) – The IRS, currently in the midst of scandals involving
the targeting of conservative groups and lavish taxpayer-funded
conferences, is ordering surveillance equipment that includes hidden
cameras in coffee trays, plants and clock radios.

The IRS wants to secure the surveillance equipment quickly – it posted a
solicitation on June 6 and is looking to close the deal by Monday, June
10. The agency already has a company lined up for the order but is not
commenting on the details.

“The Internal Revenue Service intends to award a Purchase Order to an
undisclosed Corporation,” reads the solicitation.

“The following descriptions are vague due to the use and nature of the
items,” it says.

“If you feel that you can provide the following equipment, please
respond to this email no later than 4 days after the solicitation date,”
the IRS said.

Among the items the agency will purchase are four “Covert Coffee tray(s)
with Camera concealment,” and four “Remote surveillance system(s)” with
“Built-in DVD Burner and 2 Internal HDDs, cameras.”

The IRS also is buying four cameras to hide in plants: “(QTY 4) Plant
Concealment Color 700 Lines Color IP Camera Concealment with Single
Channel Network Server, supports dual video stream, Poe [Power over
Ethernet], software included, case included, router included.”

Finishing out the order are four “Color IP Camera Concealment with
single channel network server, supports dual video stream, poe,
webviewer and cms software included, audio,” and two “Concealed clock
radio.”

“Responses to this notice must be received by this office within 3
business days of the date of this synopsis by 2:00 P.M. EST, June 10,
2013,” the IRS said. Interested vendors are to contact Ricardo Carter,
a Contract Specialist at the IRS.

“If no compelling responses are received, award will be made to the
original solicited corporation,” the IRS said.

The original solicitation was only available to private companies for
bids for 19 business hours.

The notice was posted at 11:07 a.m. on June 6 and had a deadline of 2:00
p.m. on Monday. Taking a normal 9-to-5 work week, the solicitation was
open for bids for six hours on Thursday, eight hours on Friday, and five
hours on Monday, for a total of 19 hours.

The response date was changed on Monday, pushed back to 2:00 p.m. on
Tuesday, June 11.

The location listed for the solicitation is the IRS’s National Office of
Procurement, in Oxon Hill, Md.

"The Procurement Office acquires the products and services required to
support the IRS mission,” according to its website.

In recent weeks the IRS has been at the center of multiple scandals,
admitting to targeting Tea Party groups and subjecting them to greater
scrutiny when applying for non-profit status during the 2010 and 2012
elections.

A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
revealed that groups with names like “patriot” in their titles were
singled out, required to complete lengthy personal questionnaires (often
multiple times) and having their nonprofit status delayed, sometimes for
more than three years.

Last week a second Inspector General report detailed nearly $50 million
in wasteful spending by the agency on conferences, in which employees
stayed at luxurious Las Vegas hotels, paid a keynote speaker $17,000 to
paint a picture of U2 singer Bono, and spent $50,000 on parody videos of
“Star Trek.”

Requests for comment from the IRS and Mr. Carter were not returned
before this story was posted.

CNSNews.com asked IRS spokesmen Dean Patterson and Anthony Burke to
explain the reasoning behind the solicitation, where the surveillance
equipment will be used, why the request was so urgent, and whether the
request has anything to do with the recent scandals at the IRS.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-...e-trays-plants

On 6/11/2013 8:28 AM, Home Guy wrote:
Talk about Surveillance Nation. Candid Camera, 24/7. Everywhere.

-----------------
CNSNews.com asked IRS spokesmen to explain the reasoning behind
the solicitation, where the surveillance equipment will be used,
why the request was so urgent, ...
-----------------

Simple.

The IRS wants to covertly record you when you get called in for an
audit.

So the next time you get called in for an audit (which applies to most
of you reading this, since many of you are sole-proprietor /
self-employed / landlords)

The IRS also conducts criminal investigations and performs
surveillance during those operations. Because cheating on one's taxes
is illegal, as Al Capone found out the hard way.

Better look up and smile next time you're pumping gas, since nearly
all stations now have surveillance cameras. Same as most retail
stores. Hell, any time you call a customer service line for any major
corporation, your conversation is recorded and notes are often placed
in your customer file. A good many business owners also keep track of
their PITA and deadbeat customers. Hard to rationalize outrage over
gov't surveillance when private businesses are doing it, too.

For that matter, if you're all in favor of the gov't requiring women
who want abortions to have an ultrasound probe stuck up their pussies,
why aren't you equally in favor of the IRS shoving a probe up your ass
when you go in for an audit?

Moe DeLoughan wrote:

The IRS also conducts criminal investigations and performs
surveillance during those operations.

And you think they're going to place a potted-plant or a clock radio in
some suspects home or business during those operations? Do you think
that's where these devices are going?

Because cheating on one's taxes is illegal, as Al Capone found out
the hard way.

It was pretty lame that that was the only way the gov't could actually
put Capone behind bars when he was effectively a terrorist back in the
day going by today's definitions and current law-enforcement mindset.

Could you imagine putting Bin Laden in jail based on a tax rap?

Hard to rationalize outrage over gov't surveillance when private
businesses are doing it, too.

Private businesses aren't doing it in any organized, collaborative way,
to extract data from it to use against you, to *discover* indications of
criminal activity. Most of video from those cameras are never seen by
human eyes, and the vast majority is written over within a few days.
Beyond using them for security or theft or vandalism purposes (or for
insurance purposes in the case of gas pumps in case of acident / injury)
the recordings have no value or use to the private sector.

For that matter, if you're all in favor of the gov't requiring
women who want abortions to have an ultrasound probe stuck up
their pussies,

which I'm not, and it's something that will never happen where I live

why aren't you equally in favor of the IRS shoving a probe up your
ass when you go in for an audit?

The IRS can do what it wants to americans - because I'm a Canadian
watching you drain yourselves down the toilet as a nation in so many
ways.

On Jun 11, 10:57*am, Home Guy wrote:
Moe DeLoughan wrote:
The IRS also conducts criminal investigations and performs
surveillance during those operations.

And you think they're going to place a potted-plant or a clock radio in
some suspects home or business during those operations? *Do you think
that's where these devices are going?

Who says it has to be in a suspects home or business. They
probably participate in sting operations, that they help set up,
to nab major tax cheats. Something along those lines makes
a lot more sense then the nonsense you're putting forth, which
is that they are going to us them for concealment in routine
audit or other meetings with taxpayers. There are 300 million
Americans, God knows how many IRS offices. The RFQ was
for just a few devices. How is that gonna work? Good grief,
you're dumb!




Because cheating on one's taxes is illegal, as Al Capone found out
the hard way.

It was pretty lame that that was the only way the gov't could actually
put Capone behind bars when he was effectively a terrorist back in the
day going by today's definitions and current law-enforcement mindset.

Could you imagine putting Bin Laden in jail based on a tax rap?

Hard to rationalize outrage over gov't surveillance when private
businesses are doing it, too.

Private businesses aren't doing it in any organized, collaborative way,
to extract data from it to use against you, to *discover* indications of
criminal activity.

Nonsense. Apparently you haven't been to a convenience store,
supermarket, dept store, bank, casino, etc.



*Most of video from those cameras are never seen by
human eyes, and the vast majority is written over within a few days.
Beyond using them for security or theft or vandalism purposes (or for
insurance purposes in the case of gas pumps in case of acident / injury)
the recordings have no value or use to the private sector.


So, theft and vandalism are not crimes? There goes that
dumb argument.




For that matter, if you're all in favor of the gov't requiring
women who want abortions to have an ultrasound probe stuck up
their pussies,

which I'm not, and it's something that will never happen where I live

why aren't you equally in favor of the IRS shoving a probe up your
ass when you go in for an audit?

The IRS can do what it wants to americans - because I'm a Canadian
watching you drain yourselves down the toilet as a nation in so many
ways.

Sigh. Just more penis envy. Just like the guys with small dicks,
a few Canadians are obsessed with the country they don't live in,
instead of their own.

I kinda doubt that this equipment is to be used in IRS offices. When they audit you, they send someone to your place of business to go through your records. It's up to you to provide a place for that person to work at with a plug in so that they can plug in their laptop. That way, if they find they need something they didn't know they needed, they can ask you for it on the spot, and that also saves everyone time standing at a photocopier making copies of everything. So, I can't see any of those cameras being use for routine audits.

I'm thinking that these concealed cameras are for use in covert sting operations that they can set up in a hotel room, apartment or office building.

When I worked in an office building, every corner office had a potted plant, and often offices that didn't even have windows had potted plants. Most houses, condos and apartments would have a clock radio in the bedroom and/or kitchen. And, every hotel will have hundreds of serving trays for serving coffee, pastries or food from room service.

The fact that the IRS seems to be in a hurry to get this stuff probably just means they've stumbled upon a situation that they want to investigate and they need the surveillance equipment to start the investigation right away.

The IRS wants to covertly record you when you get called in for an
audit.

You should always bring your own cameras and camera operators to
an IRS audit. Really obvious cameras, preferably with a streaming
feed to someplace secure, with instructions that if something happens
to any of them the video gets posted to YouTube. The cameras should
cover the other camera operators as well as the auditee so if any
of them get shot, strangled, abducted, or drugged, it will be on
someone else's camera.

Home Guy wrote:
Talk about Surveillance Nation. Candid Camera, 24/7. Everywhere.

-----------------
CNSNews.com asked IRS spokesmen to explain the reasoning behind
the solicitation, where the surveillance equipment will be used,
why the request was so urgent, ...
-----------------

Simple.

The IRS wants to covertly record you when you get called in for an
audit.


Select your tool.

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Greg

"Home Guy" wrote in message ...
The IRS can do what it wants to americans - because I'm a Canadian
watching you drain yourselves down the toilet as a nation in so many
ways.

The guy next door to is a Canadian who has gone back to Canada for the
summer. He doesn't like our balmy weather in Florida.

I wonder if you cold do me a small favor.

Don't let this asshole come back.

Thanks.

On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:40:20 -0400, "Charlie"
wrote:

The guy next door to is a Canadian who has gone back to Canada for the
summer. He doesn't like our balmy weather in Florida.

I wonder if you cold do me a small favor.

Don't let this asshole come back.

Thanks.


I don't blame you one bit. They cause traffic jams. Damn Yankees, I
swear!

On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:44:33 AM UTC-7, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:40:20 -0400, "Charlie"

wrote:



The guy next door to is a Canadian who has gone back to Canada for the

summer. He doesn't like our balmy weather in Florida.



I wonder if you cold do me a small favor.



Don't let this asshole come back.



Thanks.





I don't blame you one bit. They cause traffic jams. Damn Yankees, I

swear!

I heard they're building them into dildos too. Should be quite a show.

HB (dirty old person)