How to Investigate the IRS

At the center of the effort to expose the IRS’s heavy handed tactics and possible unlawful behavior is campaign finance and political tax law expert Cleta Mitchell. The Wall Street Journal’s James Freeman details Ms. Mitchell’s efforts to hold the IRS accountable.

The woman who helped expose IRS abuse of conservative activists has more news to share: The abuse continues, and she sees no evidence that the White House, the IRS or the Justice Department is doing anything to end it. “This is not in the past tense. This is still going on,” says Cleta Mitchell, perhaps the country’s pre-eminent expert on campaign-finance and political tax law.

In 2012, Ms. Mitchell worked to persuade members of Congress that reports of IRS harassment of conservative groups were credible. GOP lawmakers demanded information from the IRS and triggered the internal audit that finally forced the agency last month to acknowledge abuses it had previously denied. Now Ms. Mitchell is determined to end the abuse and identify the culprits.

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