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“even as the “rogue” agents worked across directorships with DOJ, DHS, the IRS, and the required authorization of the State Department.”

Bureaucrats are most interested in preserving their own jobs. Which I do not fault them for. But you are not going to get such mass cross agency and cross department cooperation without orders from higher up, in the political circle. And those folks aren’t going to do something like this without cooperation among the cabinet secretaries. And they aren’t going to be cooking up a scheme like this without the authorization from their boss.