Thank you, Cleta Mitchell!

One of the heroes in identifying and exposing IRS abuses is attorney Cleta Mitchell, who is also a featured speaker at our How to Excel at Your DC Internship seminar on June 14.

In a piece entitled "Cleta Mitchell: How to Investigate the IRS," WSJ editorial page editor James Freeman writes:

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.

Don't bet against her. A partner at elite international law firm Foley and Lardner, Ms. Mitchell is sketching out a road map to uncover the truth and force reform—whether or not the Obama administration cooperates...

Among Ms. Mitchell's IRS-abused clients is True the Vote (more here).