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Account raises concerns that you have sent irs documents to at least one nonofficial e-mail address and that you may have conducted official business on nonofficial accounts. >> since we don't know who has access to her private e-mail accounts, she may well be violating section 6103 with improper disclosure of taxpayer information which is a crime. >> reporter: internal revenue kwoed states that no officer or employee of the united states shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer. it is not clear whether hers...

Evidence. as it is becoming clear, the irs scandal, the agency in crisis, whether their procurement, their spending, it is a control of documents, it is choice of vendors. they just chose a vendor who already lost 123,000 social security out of their secure database, that's the new irs control dump of your personal data. these are all areas of concern. as we follow it, we have to follow where it leads and fix it. >> i don't have a lot of time. what about leadership on your side? is there some inside d.c. inside the beltway that maybe leadership is asking you to back off a little. are they? >> ...

The ability to fine people and put them in prison if they violate your rules and you come back and -- they are finding they are basically an open country and they are all alone. >> you are an attorney. do you think anyone should go to jail for this? >> there's a very serious question whether what is known as 6103 information was released. in other words, was information released that the irs has a duty not to disclose? if that was released intentionally and going to other agencies or out to the public that is actionable and a felony. the questions around the targeting, there is a lot of ambigu...

Full force, its full might to harass and intimidate and threaten an average american who only wants her voice and their voices heard? mr. miller, who in the irs is responsible for targeting conservative organizations? >> sir, let me first say i cannot speak to a given case and that we've talked about 6103, but that's -- >> this is not just one case. you know we are talking about the whole list the inspector general put up there. >> correct. >> who is responsible for targeting these groups? >> so again, i'm going to take exception to the concept of targeting. because it's a loaded term. the lis...

Tax-exempt and government entities division? >> that is a division that reports through to me, through the tax-exempt and government entities office, yes. >> so the website's accurate? >> yes. >> and then who do you report to in that position, actually in both of your positions as deputy commissioner for services and enforcement. >> deputy commissioner role i would report to the commissioner if there was one. without a commissioner, holding both hats i would report to the deputy secretary. >> of? >> treasury. >> treasury. and, did not a violation of irc 6103 to is disclose confidential taxpaye...