If in any of the cases, the leader of the organization knew about it and directed, well they should be fired/imprisoned or in Obama’s case impeached. In the case of Nixon for example, there was ample evidence he directed these illicit activities and was tactically involved in the cover up. In this case, I have seen no evidence that these came from the Whitehouse and like Benghazi, I see no evidence that any cover-up came from the white house. Instead at least the record I have seen shows there was a complicated back and forth between agencies until a consensus evolved that even Petraeus said was “good work.”

Further more, if you click on the link that V the K provided in comment #10 you can see that indeed at this time, it appears to be a bunch of well meaning people trying to organize things in a manner that made sense to them.
From his link:
“ In a way, Washington wasn’t meddling enough. And this allowed middle managers in Cincinnati to make some bad calls.”

And then this:
“The staff member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said that the determinations unit is competent and without bias, that it grouped together conservative applications “for consistency’s sake” — so one application did not sail through while a similar one was held up in review. This consistency is paramount in the review of all applications, according to Ronald Ran, an estate-tax lawyer who worked for 37 years in the IRS’s Cincinnati office.

“You’re not going to have a bunch of flaming liberals in the exempt-organizations department looking for conservative applications,” he said.”

Thanks to V for providing this fair representation.

If the Government doesn’t have our personal, financial, or health records, then Government can’t abuse our personal, financial, and health records.

That could be true. But in this specific case he was talking about how if its legal its not up to him, but he would not wait for the justice department to determine as such. He said to the Obama admin, legal or not, its just plain wrong. He could do as other administrations have done and say “wait for the investigation to be complete” yada yada yada.
But nope. They came out strong and deserve credit for that.

And to suggest that he thinks “No need to get the law involved” is a lie.

This is bad enough for Obama and there is no need for the right to get caught up in lies like ILC just did.

V – thank you for point that out. I have been out of the loop and did not see that earlier. However, there are two periods in which this happened, August 2010 to July 2011 & January 2012 to June 2012. Maybe there were referring to the 2012 incidents? – where clearly there was a HUGE surge as your link shows. I am not sure.

So it is either that Obama is a complete and total liar or we have an entire political party gone rogue. So which is it?

“We people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do. . . . That’s why there are so many people here who are flustered. Everything comes from the top. We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.”

But lower-case leftists are happy with the situation because people they don’t like are being persecuted.

And by saying “the law is irrelevant” he basically freudian slipped his way into saying what he really thinks: I will get away with this, because Obama’s awesome. And YOU’RE irrelevant.

He claims that “sunlight” has brought accountability for these scandals, and yet the two people in charge, Lois Lerner and Sara Hall Ingram, have not only not been held accountable, they have been promoted and given bonuses.

And on the basis of these lies and excuses, says, “Yes, I trust the Government.” Mainly because, it’s being used to persecute people he doesn’t like anyway.

V-
– You should absolutely not trust the government to do anything. What you should do is ensure that everything is done in an open and transparent manner so there can be checks. The IRS was correct when processing these applications. They were correct to be concerned about the huge surge of a new type of applications. They were correct to ensure that folks looking for the privilege to get tax-free benefits were legit. What they were not correct is the targeting of Conservative Groups. Just like when the IRS went after liberal churches during the Bush Admin, or when the IRS went after environmental NGO’s at the behest of conservative groups during the Bush Admin. The IRS in these cases was correct to be looking at these groups but incorrect in targeting liberal groups only.

The same thing that stopped the bureaucrats in those cases is the same thing that stopped the bureaucrats in this case.
Sunlight. Nothing stops abuses of power like sunlight.

So when it comes to Guns, immigration and health care as long as its done with oversight, there should be no issue. Will mistakes happen? Yes. Will a bureaucrat go to far? For Sure. Will sometimes top officials direct abuses of power? You bet. But in all cases, as long as there people watching the government and oversight, it will be limited and it will be short.
This is the power of sunlight and why the reaction of the Obama admin is so encouraging. They are not trying to hide behind the law, or arcane bureaucratic minutia. They saying its wrong and needs to stop and we will make sure it does.

Any Obama defenders care to field those?

Picture that Bart does something outrageous, and gets caught. Thinking fast, he says “Yes that was outrageous! And I’m putting a stop to it! From now on, it’s against my policy! So we’re good, right? My new policy stops it. No need to get the law involved. The law is irrelevant, since I am so deeply outraged as you are, and don’t quote me out of context, man!”

Are we Germany circa-May 1933?

The parallels between Feb-2013 through now—and Feb-1933 through May-1933—are frightening.

It seems that Jesus took note of who was a tax collector and was willing to forgive them, on the premise that they were sinners who obviously needed to repent of their many crimes against their fellow man.

That was His premise every time ILC. Remember the adulterous woman at the well, which “progressives” love to cite as evidence that we shouldn’t judge because of the famous quote “Let him who is without sin cast the first sin?” He then turned to the woman He had just saved, and forgave her, telling her “Go. And SIN NO MORE.” (They conveniently leave that part out.)

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LOL. Root out corrupt practices and cronyism? Why would Obama do that? He was a direct and frequent beneficiary of corrupt practices and cronyism. In fact, that is how he made his career in Chicago, such as it was. And the same is even more true for Obama’s wife Michelle, who owes her entire job history (with the possible exception for a couple of years in her one and only job as a lawyer) to Valerie Jarrett, corrupt Chicago slumlord and political fixer. And both Obamas owe convicted felon/political fixer Tony Rezko, for helping them secure a sweetheart deal for their Chicago house (and the adjoining lot, which was essentially a gift from Rezko).

Not only was Obama not the “reformer” he claimed to be, he may be one of the most corrupt individuals ever to hold the office of U.S. president.

That was in 2009. What made them vote for him in 2012, aside from a pack of lies and media obfuscation of his every filthy crime and pitiful inadequacy, I cannot say.

Think of Obama as a child who has never been told no or had to deal with the consequences of his decisions for his entire life, and you will immediately understand clearly.

Obama does not understand the consequences of lying because he has never had to face them. For example, does anyone seriously believe Obama’s grandparents were comfortable with his “Choom Gang” antics, or were willingly giving him money to buy pot? But remember, these were the people who had raised Obama’s mother with exactly zero sense of values or common sense, and it’s doubtful that they were any great improvement on their grandchild.

Hence Obama says things that are incomprehensible to people who have some fixed star in their firmament. Obama simply says whatever he needs to say to get out of the situation he is in and can, without any mental or ethical issue, say the exact opposite ten minutes later.

It has always worked for him. And it continues to work because the Obamamedia is willing to cover for his lies to get what they want.

Once you realize that Obama really has no concept of right, wrong, truth, or falsehood, and instead simply does and says whatever he wants to in order to get whatever he wants at a given time, you don’t need to invent shadowy cabals or conspiracies; you just need to see it as an extraordinarily-twisted and destructive ideology.