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We are learning more tonight about joseph stack, the man who flew his plane into a building housing the irs in austin, texas. at least one person is confirmed dead. police arent saying if its stack or possibly a missing federal worker. cnns david mattingly is joining us now from washington. i understand you spoke with one of joseph stacks friends who is pretty much still in shock. what did he tell you? >> reporter: campbell, this friend tells us the joe stack he knew, was easy going, friendly, o...

And posted on the internet raiding in part, quote, i saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expect the outcome to suddenly be different. im finally ready to stop the insanity. well, mr. big brother irs man, lets try something different. take my pound of flesh and sleep well, unquote. if youve become so angry that your idea to stop the insanity is to fly your small plane into a building with 200 federal employees, that is, by definition...

Well." if you have become so angry over the u.s. tax system that your idea of stopping the insanity is to fly your small plane into an office building that houses 200 federal tax employees, that is, by definition, the act of an insane person. a software engineer, the author of that diatribe today, crashing his plane into an austin, texas, office building that houses federal offices, setting off a raging fire. law enforcement officials identifying the pilot as andrew joseph stack iii, and because...

Mannered quintessential stair row typical respectful sort of software engineer you could imagine. i had spent the entire day trying to get my mind around how this guy who apparently loved his wife very much. loved his stepdaughter very much. had a nice house and a nice life could be the same person who decided to take himself out. had this dull drop of -- cull drop of rage in him. >> shepard: you have talked to anyone who said we saw warning signs? >> i have talked to people who knew him better ...

Where matt grubbs from our affiliate is standing by with the latest. good morning to you. >> good morning to you all. there are a lot of questions, as you said, surrounding who joseph stack was. we know that he was a software engineer who had a long running feud with the i.r.s. hed move between texas and california. in texas, he incurred significant debt. something he referenced in a six-page diotribe he posted on his companys web site yesterday before setting off. all these details, all these p...

While he strips my carcass. i choose not to ignore what is going on all around me. i choose not to pretend that business as usual wont continue. i have just had enough. the 53-year-old software engineer says he went to school in hairsburg, pennsylvania where he lived on peanut butter and crackers. he said he spent thousands of dollars battles government officials in california and continued his tax code disputes after moving to texas where he was apparently audited by the irs. that little lesson...

Definition, the act of an insane person. the software engineer crashing his plane into an office building that houses federal offices setting off a raging fire. they identified the pilot as andrew joseph stackiii. officials now investigating what appears to be obvious that the pilot crashes his plane on purpose in an effort to blow up the irs offices. at one point in his note mr. stack describing more than 30 years with battles with the irs. he expressed anger at bailouts at the expense of the m...

His frame of behind. clearly he was disgruntled at the u.s. tax system and had been for some time. >> greta: was it up until today was he employed some place? working with people, so other people might have information about him? >> reporter: as far as i can tell, he was not employed currently. but again, i -- those facts are still just coming in. i dont think weve been able to conclusively say much about his employment. his current employment status. >> greta: what can you tell me about him? >>...

Discusses sort of, i guess, his frame of behind. clearly he was disgruntled at the u.s. tax system and had been for some time. >> greta: was it up until today was he employed some place? working with people, so other people might have information about him? >> reporter: as far as i can tell, he was not employed currently. but again, i -- those facts are still just coming in. i dont think weve been able to conclusively say much about his employment. his current employment status. >> greta: what c...

Second and third pages of how it begins in the 1980s. he had a series of problems with businesses. >> uh-huh. >> and he got taxed for those problems. he did not believe that he should have been taxed for those problems. i live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. there are two laws, one for the rich and one for the rest of us. there we are, going back to the same theme we talked about. return now to the 1980s and here i was to a terrifying start as a wet-behin...