The IRS being accused of being criminal all the time doesn't gain any confidence running it's own user authentication through a foreign country instead of login.gov.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/irs-committed-alarming-c...
The Taibbi visit is certainly fishy. But knocking on his door to intimidate him when he's not there is weird tactic to be intentional.
Are there cases where state institutions infringe on peoples' rights? Yes. Do they do it all the time? No.
Is Donald Trump a selfish liar? Yes. Are all Republicans selfish liars? No.
It's making me sad to see it here on HN so often.
What?? I read the news a lot and don’t see this.
I doubt login.me has any connection to Montenegro except for which registrars manage the domain name itself. This is not a defense of their choice of vendor.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-committed-alarming-civ...
I do believe this was an issue (in fact suborned by FBI practices) in the 1960s against civil rights targets, but I haven’t seen any credible accusations since the Nixon era.
It's literally an investigation into the government weopanizing the IRS.
The IRS published documents you can view yourself to see their misdeeds. The IRS has since apologized and updated policy to curtail (but not eliminate) the authoritarian behavior.
You don't give yourself credibility by making up names.
"Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government", according to the article at your link, is literally the source. I made no name up.
I don't think the correlation between domain-choice and legal-incorporation is strong enough to support that guess, much like how bit.ly probably isn't incorporated in Libya.
AFAICT ID.me is incorporated in the US state of Delaware, a popular choice due to its local laws.