It’s been a year since ProPublica published the first pieces in a series dubbed “The Secret IRS Files: Inside the Tax Records of the .001%.” The editors revealed that an anonymous source sent them a “trove” of raw data containing information on thousands of taxpayers. It was so massive, it took ten staff members months of analysis ahead of publication to make something of it.
A year later, we know exactly as much now about the means, motive, and identity of the data thief as we did then: nothing.
Three entities have authority to conduct investigations in this matter: the Treasury Department in the form of the Office of the Inspector General, the FBI, and the Department of Justice.
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