Please reread my post.
Most bureaucrats are not authorized to make many of the decisions I listed.
Once you “get that” then you are ready to start looking down the rabbit hole.
Here’s a hint. In China it is against the law to eat snakes. The only people who can eat snakes are the bureaucrats that enforce the snake eating law.
So it stands to reason that people who are in charge of making sure things that are not for knowing stay secret are the people who know it.