“I’m proud of my career and the job I did for this country,” Lois Lerner said during her two-hour conversation with Politico. The interview paints the former IRS official as a department head who lost control of her division, whose blunt, apolitical actions earned the animosity of the very political Washington theater. The interview is Lerner’s stage. We learn that Nice Lerner rescued animals after Hurricane Katrina, and she struggled at the IRS when she switched careers from a dental hygienist to government work. Politico also tells of her gardening, her supportive husband and the death threats she received. “Regardless of whatever else happens, I know I did the best I could under the circumstances and am not sorry for anything I did,” she said. Two things are clear: First, Lerner has a point of view justifying her political targeting that she has yet to explain ever since she pleaded the Fifth. Second, her actions and the actions of her department broke the trust America placed in its tax system and we still need an explanation. More…