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IRS: Special Agents Must Be Prepared to Use “Deadly Force”
The Internal Revenue Service is boosting its corps of special agents, and one requirement for the job is this: The agents must be ready to shoot to kill.
The latest from the Biden administration is in a job ad the tax bureau posted online. After disappearing briefly, apparently because it caused an uproar, the IRS boldly republished it.
Trouble for the agency began when Ford Fischer posted the two key details of the ad on Twitter August 10: “50 hours per week, which may include irregular hours, and be on-call 24/7, including holidays and weekends,” and “Carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”
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