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Per their about page[0]:

> We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.

As you said, the "abuse of power" here is someone (likely) at the IRS leaked these documents. Someone with the power over others taxes chose to share that info. Then ProPublica is then using this information to push a tax story that they want.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/about



I assume the IRS had them stolen but perhaps you are correct and it was an IRS employee who feels like this is a noble thing to do.




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