The IRS Scandal, Day 549

Wall Street Journal editorial:  Overseeing Obama:

Election Day is over. But if Americans ever hope to get to the bottom of the IRS scandal, they’ll be hoping for victory in a more obscure campaign. The House Republican leadership will soon select the next chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In a crowded field, Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) is the candidate best equipped to conduct thorough and credible investigations of federal waste, fraud and abuse. ...

Current Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa is stepping down due to GOP term limits for committee heads. Mr. Jordan has done as much as anyone to shine a light on IRS abuse of the President’s philosophical opponents, both in hearings and behind the scenes.

More than a year before the public learned the name of Lois Lerner, Mr. Jordan was seeking answers from the IRS’s tax-exempt organizations chief on political targeting allegations. He then requested an inspector general’s audit at the Treasury Department. Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer representing various IRS targeting victims, tells us that if not for Mr. Jordan there would have been no Treasury investigation “and no public admission that, indeed, conservative groups were being subjected to unprecedented scrutiny and mistreatment.” ...

Speaker John Boehner and other members of the elected GOP House leadership should elevate Mr. Jordan and send a clear message of reform and accountability.

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