The other implication of the report is that the IRS should simply have ignored allegations that 501(c)(4) groups were breaking the law and not have investigated at all. If you are willing to acknowledge that there might have been a law being broken or an envelope being pushed past the breaking point, the notion that you had one bureaucrat who became zealous about the matter is hardly surprising. In the end, she accomplished little other than slowing down some applications as each approach she brain-stormed proved unworkable. The report is highly critical of senior leadership for not more quickly unsnarling the problem once they became aware of it, but anybody who has worked with the IRS knows that once anything gets snarled, it will take a while to unsnarl it.

So I recommend that if you are interested in the matter you read the report with an open mind.  Even though it strongly adopts one narrative, all the material for a different narrative is there.  That is why the New York Times can headline its coverage “Probe Fails to Link IRS Scandal to White House”  while Ben Shapiro’s Truth Revolt headlines “Issa Releases Damning Report On IRS Scandal” and leads with “Issa’s report contained emails which seemed to indicate there was visceral hatred of the Tea Party by IRS workers.”  Frankly, even if I just strongly disliked someone, I could come up with something better than calling them “icky”.