CNS News -- 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.
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Blog author's comments - I suppose this equipment is for the IRS' 'Covert Operations' division? "If you can’t trust government to follow the Constitution while spying, we’re going to have some problems" ~Barack Hussein Obama. We do have many problems.
The government needs a serious reset. It won't happen with the current administration but constitutional law has to be reinstated. This has gotten insane. The last people you want to see playing covert spy games is the IRS. Are these the same low-level 'rogue' IRS employees who are also being blamed for the targeting scandal? It was not the low-level employees acting on their own in either case.
The question is will America as founded survive the Obama administration? Those who educated themselves concerning Barack Obama prior to the 2008 election knew he would be a failure as president but never thought he would be the complete disaster for the country that he actually is. I suppose Obama knows nothing about the IRS buying spy equipment either.
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