Not surprising. Bureaucracies exist only to serve themselves.
You have written a fundamental truth.
“Bureaucracies exist only to serve themselves.”
Sarah Palin wrote this in her book “Going Rogue”:
“But I do believe in a few timeless and unchanging truths, and chief among those is that man is fallen. This world is not perfect, and politicians will never make it so. This, above all, is what informs my pragmatic approach to politics.”