One thing: many of the unknown people in various agencies are career bureaucrats. They NEVER leave. CIA, State etc.
but there is a chain of authority that ends with a political appointee. look at the Jeanine Pirro case - not an important case mind you, a state AG election in a heavily Dem state. Yet, the US attorney has the time to mount an investigation of the republican candidate for trying to determine if her husband is having an affair - and then his office leaks it to the media a month before the election.
that US attorney should have been fired instantly. was he?
this administration simply doesn't want to engage in the use of executive authority like this. but get this - the administration that left office in 2000, CAN AND DOES.