Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen pledged to House Ways and Means Committee Republicans she would share details of a committee-run whistleblower portal for IRS employees, but some say making agency employees comfortable reporting misdeeds isn’t as simple as sending a link.

The GOP-led panel, which seeks to conduct aggressive oversight of the IRS, announced a portal in late January giving agency employees a new resource to report misconduct or other wrongdoing.

Even though whistleblower law protects federal employees from retribution for reporting wrongdoing within their agency, some worry staff willing to report misdeeds will remain silent, fearing negative consequences if they ...

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