Wouldn't you know, FBI says it can't find anything illegal in all that IRS intimidation

By Andrew Malcolm
Here's a January column opening we could have written early last summer when the broad scale of the Internal Revenue Service's intimidation of conservative political groups began emerging:
First, you'll remember the national shock that a once-trusted if not revered federal institution had been turned into a mere enforcement arm of Chicago-style politicians using its powers to intimidate and harass political groups, most of which seemed to oppose the Chicago politician in the White House.
And all this during the two-year lead-up to his reelection bid.
As usual when faced with scandals, President Obama went into his full Sgt. Schultz-mode, claiming to know nothing, nothing at all about his administration's employees following the demands of Democrat legislators to investigate dark groups with suspicious names like "tea party," "9/12" and "patriots."
Obama's chief legal counsel just down the hall knew of the ongoing internal probe, but obviously had not had a chance to mention it to the president.

As usual, Attorney General Eric Holder was also unaware of these widespread activities receiving directions from Washington. IRS agents who, by the way, will be enforcing ObamaCare, even demanded conservative donor lists to see who was opposing this president with their money.
Holder called the acts "outrageous and unacceptable" and promised a thorough FBI criminal investigation to get to the bottom of it, no matter where the leads went.
In fact, the FBI probe was so important and thorough that weeks after it was to have begun none of the political victims had been contacted.
And when the FBI director was asked about this on Capitol Hill, he could not recall the name of the important FBI Special Agent he had put in charge of the thorough investigation promised by the attorney general and president.
These events combined with continued administration stonewalling over other congressional probes into:
-- The illegal "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation with Mexican drug cartels, which Holder was so completely unaware of that he asked Obama to declare executive privilege over Justice Department communications that wouldn't exist if he was really unaware of the rogue op,

-- The deadly Benghazi attack background on why the U.S. consulate there was stripped off American security in the weeks before a 9/11 anniversary, why no military forces were ready for a rapid response to any trouble, how four Americans were allowed to die with no rescue attempt, what was the president up to during those awful hours, and why he continued to blame an obscure YouTube posting weeks after he'd been told he couldn't keep his video excuse even if he liked it?