Former IRS Attorney Says Agency Likely Knows Identity of Pro Publica Leaker

There are at least three major investigations of who gave a massive trove of confidential tax data to an investigative news site, but a former IRS lawyer believes the federal tax agency knew who did it soon after the leak. “If an IRS employee accesses a tax return that he or she does not have a business reason to access, that unauthorized access is flagged in the system and the employee is subject to punishment, including termination.  Every year, IRS employees are fired for accessing the tax returns of celebrities and ex-spouses,” former IRS Senior Attorney William Henck told The Epoch Times. “There is no way an IRS employee could have accessed all of the tax returns at issue here without red flags popping up left and right. Someone must access a tax return before that return can be leaked, so unless this was an outside hack, it should be relatively …