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Advocacy, irs modernization, tax enforcement, international partnerships, and the future of the irs. This portion is about one hour and 20 minutes. Thank you for coming out tonight. It is an exciting time at the Internal Revenue service. It is an exciting time at the Internal Revenue service. As i mentioned, our commissioner is coming up on his oneyear anniversary. We have a lot of people at 1111 constitution avenue. There are a lot of new people coming on and a lot of people that were there that have been there and were thinking about leaving in the past, are thinking about staying. We have some amazing speakers to discuss hiring, staffing, and current priorities. And what we can expect in the year or two years to come. Let me get right to introductions. Mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployme ....
To my right is mary beth murphy, commissioner of Small Business, selfemployment division. To my left, is the criminal Investigation Division at the irs and nina olson, National Taxpayer advocate. Their bios are online. I will leave you to review them but they are amazing individuals. They have done tremendous work on behalf of of the taxpayers in this country and it will be a great evening. Let me start by having each of them talk a little bit about the state of the irs in their division. And then we will go into some q a and open it up to the audience for any questions you might have. Mary beth, can you kick us off . Ms. Murphy i want to thank the aba, the new york city bar for inviting us today. I am in my sixth year. When i look around at our Senior Exec ....
Iraq is still very much an experiment. One, i think the feeling that i got throughout the country is that there is still discussion about what this state represents, what it should be. And an idea that we in washington sometimes see as a divided nation that wants and should be formally split into three entities is in fact not there in many respects. Iraq is still trying to figure out in itself what the relationship should be between the communities, how it should treat its neighbors, how to redefine its identity both in terms of its relationship with iran, the u. S. And its arab partners. One thing that i think we should be looking at very clearly is the u. S. Should be encouraging that process forward. The more we encourage iraqis to discover a new process that reaches reconciliation as ambassador was mentioning i think more iraq will be stable. Definitely what the fight around daesh and isis requires that process to move forward. Thats really my viewpoint on where iraq is today. And ....
And i think the section 215 program is one that the government has made the argument that they need bruce force collection, they need the retention to identify previously unknown links in information. Have we given thoughts to whether there are technological options available to limit correction for a program like section 215, if you havent been more generally, you can be more specific about correction options. With respect to section 215 the data is collected initially by the phone company. The question is whether the information needs to be transferred in bulk to the Intelligence Community in order for them to do their analysis and it is pretty clear that as a technical matter, the kinds of linking, looking for multi hot links that the intelligence agencies want to do, can be done technically while the information is held to a third party such as the phone companies. This requires a modest amount of technical coordinatio ....