It doesn’t matter. The bucks will stop at all the implicated bosses’ desks.
I think it is better that “they” really didn’t know. It makes the case that the federal bureaucracy is acting like run away machine bent on self preservation and status quo. Someone has to tame the federal machine whch is for all intents and proposes an unelected 4th branch of govt above and OVER the other 3. That someone is .... TRUMP!!!