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rivergator · Aug 18, 2022

It's not true, but it gets the people riled up ...

Tucker Carlson’s dangerous lie that Biden is targeting his audience with “87,000 armed IRS agents”

G8R92 · Aug 18, 2022

Unfortunately, there are too many people that subscribe to synthetic anger spewed on some media outlets.

In recent days there’s been an online stir over job postings for IRS special agents who carry guns as part of their work with the IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division.

Though the job is really about sniffing out income and accounting irregularities to build legal cases, one of the potential duties is “conduct[ing] or participat[ing] in surveillance, armed escorts, dignitary protection, undercover operations, execution of search and arrest warrants, seizures, etc.,” the job listing states.

There are 300 vacancies for that role, which pays between $50,704 and $89,636 annually, according to the listing.
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Yes, the IRS is hiring criminal investigators empowered to use deadly force — but here’s some important context

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