The IRS Shenanigans and the Dorsai Series

According to Joe Klein (explaining why a scandal caused by subordinates not given direct orders is supposedly not that serious):

The most important difference is that the Roosevelt and Nixon IRS depredations came from the White House. This mess seems to have percolated from the middle–the IRS’s Cincinnati office (a major facility, by the way)–up to the upper-middle.

I'm reminded of the end of Tactics of Mistake by Gordon Dickson, in which General Cletus Grahame doesn't have to give detailed orders because his subordinates were so well trained.