IRS leaking conservatives' confidential info to left

Attorney: 'It is shocking to learn the kinds of things employees are doing'
In addition to its ongoing harassment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, the IRS is also carrying out audits on right-leaning organizations on a level that cannot be coincidental and improperly sharing sensitive information with rival liberal organizations, according to one of the lead attorneys for groups accusing the IRS of misconduct.

Cleta Mitchell made headlines Thursday when she told congressional investigators that the IRS scandal is ongoing and the Justice Department investigation into the alleged abuses is a nonexistent “sham.” However, Mitchell also said conservative groups and individuals continue to find themselves in the IRS cross-hairs in large numbers and the cases are not at all limited to those seeking tax-exempt status.

“There’s been something going on in terms of the returns themselves and the high number of individuals who became politically active,” Mitchell said. “I had an email from someone (Thursday) who saw the testimony on TV and said, ‘I created a website for our local tea-party group and then I was audited by the IRS.’ I have heard stories like that over and over and over again. I want a prosecutor or someone to conduct a statistical analysis of those who have been audited the last two or three years.

“It isn’t just big donors, unlike what the IRS commissioner said (Wednesday) when trying to justify why so many major donors to Romney were audited. It’s individuals. It’s small businesses, web designers, people who provided services to tea-party groups. They’ve been subject to audits as well. I do not believe that it is statistically random,” Mitchell said. “I think that if anyone actually did the analysis that it would be clear these were not randomly selected.”


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