The IRS hired a man convicted of illegally accessing FBI files

  According to this story the IRS hired a man  who was convicted of illegally accessing FBI files in order to help his friend who just happened to be linked to al Qaeda.

The Internal Revenue Service, already facing accusations that its workers improperly snooped through tax files, has hired a former police officer convicted just a few years ago of illegally accessing FBI records and providing information to a subject of a counterterrorism investigation involving an infamous al Qaeda figure.

Mohammad Weiss Rasool, or Weiss Russell as he is known at the IRS, was sentenced to two years of probation in 2008 after pleading guilty in federal court to illegally accessing the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database to run license tag numbers for a friend he thought was being followed. That friend, it turned out, was the subject of an undercover FBI operation and a close associate of the al Qaeda-linked cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Islamist militant who preached to three of the 9/11 hijackers and inspired the Fort Hood shootings, according to court records and interviews.

  People are now starting to question the IRS’s system for performing background checks, wondering how someone with this man’s prior conviction could get a job at the IRS, but is it all that surprising when you think about it? They probably saw his background in snooping and decided he was uniquely qualified to work at the IRS.

  He should fit right in…..