[knarf]

"Everything comes from the top. We don't have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive [emphasis added]."
And not one of them raised an alarm? Not one of them even"

They're called embeds.

And most insidiously ... the embeds don't even know why they're there.

Just doin' m'job, Cap'n.

[deweyfrank]

“Just doin’ m’job, Cap’n.”

That's what Government workers do. It's their culture. This is why expanded government will eventually bankrupt this country. This is simply a fact.