Sorry, that’s a good attempt to defend Obama, but the IRS couldn’t get away with this without approval from above.
IRS employees did not spontaneously think this up themselves. That would be insane. I will bet that a lot of them are sweating bullets right now thinking about jail terms, because what they have done is so blatantly illegal that they would never have dared to do it on their own.
The ethos would have encouraged them and made them trust orders from above, no matter how illegal, since it appears that 100% of the employees at the Cincinatti office donated either to Obama or to Sherrod Brown.
But the orders came from elsewhere.
The point is a politicized bureaucracy is an even bigger problem than a corrupt administration. Administrations can be exposed and forced to fire people or be voted out. But if the rot extends to the bureaucrats, they have civil service protection and a much bigger fix is required. I hope all we have here is a corrupt administration.