Internal Revenue Service v. Federal Labor Relations Authority

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge LUMBARD.

LUMBARD, Senior Circuit Judge:

On March 16,1979, Robert Daley, a Revenue Officer in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Hartford, Conn, district office, was examined under oath by two IRS Internal Security Division Inspectors in connection with the leak of confidential information about a taxpayer whose delinquent personal income tax files Daley was processing. Daley’s request that he be allowed to bring a union representative with him to the interview was rebuffed with the comment that it was to be a “third-party interview” and that…