Congress created the precursor for what became the U.S. Department of Defense when it passed the National Security Act of 1947 and later amended it in 1949. The law required
One particularly egregious event in recent history was the unauthorized disclosure of private, legally-protected IRS data to online news source ProPublica – an incident of which little has been revealed, despite an ongoing, years-long investigation by multiple agencies.
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) highlights both new and longstanding unresolved security risks to the safety of confidential taxpayer information at the Internal Revenue Service.