Counterintelligence

Suspected Russian IRS Hack Raises Larger Questions About Spy Recruitment, Blackmail

Last July, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) informed Congress that its auditors “found that about 83,000 Department of Defense (DOD) employees and contractors who held or were determined eligible for secret, top secret or sensitive compartmented information (SCI) clearances, or related interim clearances, had unpaid federal tax debt totaling more than $730 million as of June 30, 2012.”