IRS Audits Sweeping up Ex-FBI Chiefs Not Improper, Watchdog Says

A Treasury Department watchdog said in a report released Thursday it didn’t find misconduct during a review conducted in the wake of revelations of IRS audits of former FBI Director James Comey and former acting and deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration review came at the request of then-IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig and members of Congress, following a July New York Times article that reported that Comey and McCabe had both been selected for intensive audits as part of the National Research Program, which does research on tax compliance. Comey and McCabe were both ...