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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Abe Asher

IRS launches security review following GOP conspiracy theories about armed agents targeting Americans

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Internal Revenue Service announced plans on Tuesday to launch a review of security at its facilities across the country, following threats from Republicans and other right-wing actors.

IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig toldThe Washington Post that in the coming weeks and months, the agency will prepare risk assessments for all of its 600 facilities and consider new security measures designed to keep workers safe. It will be the first such assessments since the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.

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