The author still didn't quite "get there."
These aren't mere scandals. They're crimes.
At best, the attacks represent independent attempts at self-preservation by the administrative state. The Tea Party is hostile to all alphabet agencies, and they simply fought back.
At worst, and probably closest to the truth, these crimes represent an acceleration of rat tactics to eliminate opposition and create a de facto one party state.
As you pointed out, since several agencies colluded, it means they were coordinated by higher ups. The higher ups above the cabinet level is the White House.
Nixon was a piker.
They’re definitely crimes. Furthermore, while Nixon fantasized about using the IRS to attack some of his “enemies,” I don’t believe he ever actually went so far as to attempt to get the IRS to go along with this. What we have with Obama is not only a government targeting ordinary citizens who are just expressing their opinions or supporting a candidate, but massive corruption of every agency, making the agencies collude in his crimes.
Bill Clinton was also corrupt, but even with Clinton, his corruption was not on this scale and most of it was dedicated to seeing that Bill got what he wanted: usually either sex or money. Corruption and manipulation of the electoral process is endemic in the Dem party, but Clinton doesn’t seem to have made it much worse.
But Obama has brought every agency and institution of the US government into his socialist coup, using them to ruthlessly suppress and destroy all opponents and even murmuring voices among the citizenry with his goal of creating a uni-party system and an executive branch that controls and has absorbed the powers of the other branches.
So this is not only crime, it’s crime in the pursuit of a treasonous goal, that of fundamentally restructuring the US into a socialist dictatorship.