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The David Knight Show

INTERVIEW: Former IRS Agent on the Purpose of the New IRS Army

The David Knight Show

David Knight

Politics, News, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6765 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What you need to know when the army of IRS agents comes knocking?
What is the longer term goal of this massive expansion beyond audits?

IRS whistleblower Joe Banister, AgentForTruth.com, who was part of the armed criminal investigation unit until he began asking questions about the income tax.

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0:00.0

All right, joining us now is Joe Bannister.

0:07.3

I've interviewed Joe several times, had the pleasure to do it, a man of integrity.

0:12.0

He's a former criminal investigator for the IRS.

0:15.8

Now he is an agent for truth.

0:18.2

That's the name of his website, as well as a podcast that he has.

0:22.4

Thank you for joining us, Joe.

0:24.5

Thank you, David. It's great to see you again and talk with you and hook up with Travis again.

0:29.3

Let's see his smiling face.

0:31.5

Great to have you there. Tell people a little bit about where they can find you, first of all.

0:36.2

Where can they find Agent for Truth and tell us

0:38.6

a little bit about the podcast that's going on? Yeah, the website is Agent for Truth.com. I started out

0:46.2

23 years ago with the website called Freedom Above Fortune.com because I had to decide what was more

0:52.9

important, you know, so-called fortune at the IRS with a secure pension and paycheck or freedom, you know, for myself, my family, and for our country.

1:03.1

But I thought Agent for Truth was a good little moniker there since I was a special agent with the IRS and wanted to be the

1:12.9

best agent for truth that I could be. So agent for truth.com is the website. I actually wrote a book,

1:19.4

if you don't mind me doing a shameless plug. No, do it. Yeah. Called the investigating the federal

1:24.6

income tax report to the American people. And that's because in

1:29.2

1999 when I resigned, I wrote a preliminary report. So, of course, now that 23 years have passed,

1:36.9

there was a lot more news, including criminally prosecuting me, stripping me in my CPA certificate,

1:43.9

all kinds of fun and games that the IRS can lash out at.

1:49.0

So, yeah, I have a podcast.

1:53.0

It's actually just through Zoom, kind of a wonkish thing.

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