Referring to IRS-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) agents, Rep. Holding says that he wants to "take the guns and badges away from the IRS." IRS-CI special agents tackle crimes focusing on tax ...

CI, as it’s known, is much smaller than the bureau’s civil side— just 3,700 employees worldwide, about 2,600 of them badge and gun-carrying special agents. The IRS is the only federal agency ...

George Holding, R-Raleigh, would “take the guns and badges ... skilled. . . . But the IRS itself is a failed bureaucracy,” Holding said in an interview with McClatchy on Tuesday. IRS “CI ...