Who authorized the F&F operation?
We don’t know, because we know.
Imagine a private company. Imagine that a group of employees was regularly helping an auto theft ring steal company vehicles. Imagine that they said, and had documentation to prove, that they were ordered to do that by some nameless person in upper management.
Now, summon up all of your imaginative powers and imagine that the CEO couldn't find out who ordered that after 18 months. Wut you say? Your imaginator broke?