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A fire broke out in the basement of the Washington offices of the IRS one day after the release of the Panama Papers.
A fire broke out in the basement of the Washington offices of the IRS one day after the release of the Panama Papers.
In the leak, 11.5 million documents were stolen from Mossack Fonseca and were leaked to Suddeutsche Zeitung, who then turned to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to examine the documents. In the time since, media organizations have been scrambling to sift through a large number of documents, in hopes of finding stories that they can spin to fit their narrative.
So far, most of the information to be released through the mainstream media has been directed at foreign governments and leaders, with a passing mention of several hundred American citizens who store their money offshore without reporting it to the IRS. Ironically enough, at the height of the Panama Papers publicity, a fire broke out in the basement of the IRS headquarters, leading to a full closure of the headquarters for over a week.
Comment: This is not the first time an office that might contain sensitive information has conveniently been destroyed. Remember 9/11? The most damaged part of the Pentagon that day contained the accounting offices of Naval Intelligence.
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