My husband and I often argue, as Tom does here as well, about the ancient "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" dilemma. I sure don't know the answer, other than to say that no law is self-enforcing, and words on paper don't protect anyone unless people undertake hardship and risk to insist on the meaning that underlies them.
Meanwhile, most grist for the mill: Congress grinds toward something like enforcement of the laws against a lawless IRS despite the oft-repeated claim that years of "investigation" have not uncovered a smidgen of corruption. I appreciated one Washington Post commenter's formulation: "Smidgens keep popping up all over."
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I'm glad to see Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Tim Camus is on the job. This has seemed like a Sisyphean task. Or maybe it's Herculean -- are we in the Augean Stables?
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