They weren’t “rogue agents,” they were “rouge agents.” Two old ladies with very pink cheeks!
They are seasoned folks who've been around.
USPS was the same ~ the folks who prepare or sign final agency decisions, particularly when it comes to pricing matters, or the peculiarities of mail processing requirements, know the business and the law and have seen everything.
Lois Lerner appears to have never worked around the senior career staff in an old line agency or she'd known to NEVER BLAME THEM for your own shenanigans.
Representative Cunningham almost stepped in the same tar bucket the other day ~ but he's being set straight as we speak.
The staff people follow the rules and try to do the job correctly. People like Lois Lerner are brought in at the top end because they are presumed to have 'management talent', a quite elusive commodity that I have yet to see in any appointee to any agency.
Typical of their kind the first thing they look around to do is SUBVERT THE PROCESS FOR PERSONAL GAIN. Former Postmaster Casey, a close buddy of Ronaldus Magnus, did exactly that within a couple of days of being on the job. He wanted to rewrite all the rulings that'd been made on his chains of publishing entities.
There are others but those two are the best examples I can think of on short notice.
Casey didn't last long ~ a year I think it was, then he showed up on the Board of Governors for a while ~ very quiet man by then ~ chastened. That will happen to Lois. She will be chastened, and audited every couple of months for the rest of her life, by somebody! A regular test case.
God have mercy on her relatives ~ they will share in the blessings of blaming IRS staffers for her stuff.