[agitator]

Most of the time, government doesn't need the authority to do anything anymore. They just do what they want and see if they can get away with it. If they do something that amounts to a crime, who's going to prosecute them?

And by the way, shame has nothing to do with it.

[David Isaac]

If you will notice, that behavior does not seem to change much with the changing of administrations. The federal bureauacracy is a mostly independent monster that operates at a separate and nearly invisible level. The players at that level really have no loyalty other than to themselves and their particular fiefdom.

But still, any President should be held accountable for the actions of their "underlings"