I have had enough of bureaucracies that run 'on their own.'
The ATF, IRS, INS, FBI, CIA, and DEA are creatures
of the executive branch. If government policy isn't effected
by who sits in the Oval Office, who is in charge? Al Haig?
Have you ever been in charge of anything bigger than the midnight shift at a fast food joint? It is frustrating as Hell to be sitting in the corner office, watching entire divisions of your company wander off the reservation again and again. But you know what? It happens anyway. What's worse, half the time the people doing this stuff think they're helping. And in the federal government, you can't even fire the jerks.
This stuff happens everywhere, and all the time. There is no such thing as micro-managing an organization with three million employees. You can't even do it with two hundred. There's always some bastard out there whose motto is to seek forgiveness instead of permission, and the worst thing is, he's the only one getting anything done.