All the President’s IRS Agents

Few presidents understand the power of speech better than Barack Obama, and even fewer the power of denying it to others. That’s the context for understanding the White House’s unprecedented co-option of the Internal Revenue Service to implement a political campaign to shut up its critics and its opponents.

Perhaps the biggest fiction of this past year was that the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups has been confronted, addressed and fixed. The opposite is true. The White House has used the scandal as an excuse to expand and formalize the abuse.

Continue reading this piece from the Wall Street Journal here.

• By Kimberly A. Strassel inWall Street Journal, February 27, 2014

  Rule of Law

  • Barack Obama,
  • Big Government,
  • IRS,
  • Separation of powers