Gregg, I'm gonna disagree with your first two assertions. We're being misled on the IRS thing, being told that there were 2 or 4 low level employees in one office responsible for the actions even though documentation exists of similar violations from three different offices in Ohio, California and Washington. That coordination of effort cannot exist on the level we're being told is responsible.
There's an excellent opinion piece in today's Wall Street Journal which, I think, gives a much better understanding of how this happened and why it is linked to the very top of this administration. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...s_opinion_main
On the DOJ/AP story, we're being misled again. The National Security excuse we're being fed is not borne out by the facts. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...767_print.html
It appears more and more that this was a political effort designed to ultimately prevent the press from doing it's job and show their sources, including potential whistleblowers, that their days were numbered.
Both examples suggest an effort to subvert the democratic principles our country was founded on and every item in the current scandal cascade shows the taint of politics over governance.