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Cleta Chronicles: IRS scandals, part 1


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Scott Johnson

2/23/14

 

 

Cleta Mitchell may be the most dangerous woman in America. She is the prominent Washington attorney who represents several clients victimized by the criminal misconduct of the IRS over the past four years. She speaks with authority when she asserts, as she did recently in her testimony before a congressional subcommittee, that the Obama administration is responsible for “lies upon lies” covering up the multifarious, politically inspired wrongdoing of the IRS.

 

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Despite the fact that she had clients to meet and work to do back in her office at Foley & Lardner, Cleta graciously consented to answer a few questions on video for Power Line readers following the lunch. She even found us a quiet spot — Heritage’s Clare Boothe Luce conference room — for us to talk.

 

In the two-and-a-half minute video below, the first of five that I will post this week, Cleta comments on President Obama’s statement to Bill O’Reilly in the pre-Superbowl interview that the extensive and ongoing IRS misconduct involves “not even a smidgen of corruption.”

 

 

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Cleta Chronicles: IRS scandals, part 2
Scott Johnson

2/24/14

 

Cleta Mitchell is the Washington superlawyer who represents numerous clients victimized by the multifarious criminal misbehavior of the IRS. Cleta sat down with me to field a few questions following her outstanding presentation at the Heritage Foundation program on the IRS scandals this past Friday. In the three-minute video below, I ask her to describe the origin of the scandals. Can she trace the source?

 

Cleta traces the scandals to President Obama and concludes with some choice words on the role of our “state media,” as she calls them, in falling down on the story. Tyler O’Neill’s account of Friday’s Heritage program also focuses on the origin of the scandals.

 

 

Cleta’s tracing of the origin of the scandals to Obama calls for my usual reminder: The charge that Richard Nixon attempted to misuse the IRS for political purposes made its way into the second of the three articles of impeachment against him. Nixon “endeavoured” to misuse the IRS, in the fancy British spelling of the word used in article 2. Nixon’s efforts to misuse the IRS were futile. They went nowhere. Nixon and his henchmen desired the IRS to “screw” their political opponents, but their efforts were a pathetic failure.

 

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Cleta Chronicles: IRS scandals, part 3

Scott Johnson

2/25/14

 

Washington superlawyer Cleta Mitchell represents several clients victimized by the criminal misconduct of the IRS under the Obama administration. When it comes to the IRS scandals, she knows what she is talking about and she does not pull her punches. She states her views in straightforward style without fear or favor.

 

In her remarks at the Heritage Foundation program on the IRS assault on the First Amendment this past Friday (video here), I was particularly struck by a point Cleta made about the complicity of Congress in the lawlessness of the IRS. She handed up an indictment that extended both to Democratic and Republican members of Congress.

 

I asked Cleta to reiterate her comments on this subject in a three-minute video for Power Line readers. If you watch only one video in this series, please make it this one.

 

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Cleta Chronicles: IRS scandals, part 4
Scott Johnson
2/26/14

Paul Mirengoff has explained what the IRS is up to in its proposed rulemaking under section 501©(4) in the post “The IRS’s latest attempt to silence conservatives.” The proposed regulation means to institutionalize the criminal misconduct of the IRS that has sent many clients to Washington superlawyer Cleta Mitchell, the star of this series.

 

The IRS and the Obama administration are deep into the cover-up phase of the IRS’s criminal misconduct. Cleta has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents relating to the proposed rule. In the video below, she explains the peculiarities of the IRS’s response to her request.

 

 

Brad Smith and his colleagues at the Center for Competitive Politics have compiled an invaluable, heavily footnoted document setting forth the efforts by the regulatory agencies to police political speech at the behest of the Democratic Party: “The IRS harassment scandal: A timeline of ‘reform.’” Here is where the proposed regulation fits in:

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