Using Agencies As Political Weapons
When senior political officials order senior agency executives to use their agencies as political weapons against opponents, they usually get turned in by lower level staff who feel that that sort of corruption of power taints their agency and shames the lower level people who work there.
In recent history there have been some famous deployments of this tactic:
- Chris Christie's "Bridge-Gate"
The ordering of the artificial creation of traffic jams affecting hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in order to make nearby politician look bad.
- Steven Chu's Department of Energy Manipulations
The rigging of political funding in order to terminate competitors
- Lois Lerner's staff's manipulation of the IRS
The ordering of Federal Tax agency resources in order to damage non-aligned interests
- The citing of DOJ Attorney General Eric Holder, By Congress, For "Contempt of Congress"
The U.S. Congress accused AG Eric Holder of refusing to provide evidence because he was engaging in a cover-up of something that Congress wanted to investigate
Multiple investigations are underway to determine: "Who gave the orders?"
In recent history there have been some famous deployments of this tactic:
- Chris Christie's "Bridge-Gate"
The ordering of the artificial creation of traffic jams affecting hundreds of thousands of taxpayers in order to make nearby politician look bad.
- Steven Chu's Department of Energy Manipulations
The rigging of political funding in order to terminate competitors
- Lois Lerner's staff's manipulation of the IRS
The ordering of Federal Tax agency resources in order to damage non-aligned interests
- The citing of DOJ Attorney General Eric Holder, By Congress, For "Contempt of Congress"
The U.S. Congress accused AG Eric Holder of refusing to provide evidence because he was engaging in a cover-up of something that Congress wanted to investigate
Multiple investigations are underway to determine: "Who gave the orders?"