"The Department is under the control and supervision of a United States Secretary of Energy,
a political appointee of the President of the United States.
The Energy Secretary is assisted in managing the Department by a United States Deputy Secretary of Energy, also
appointed by the President, who assumes the duties of the Secretary in his absence.
The Department also has three Under Secretaries,
each appointed by the President, who oversee the major areas of the Department's work.
The President also appoints seven officials with the rank of Assistant Secretary of Energy who have line management responsibility for major organizational elements of the Department."
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It seems we have open insubordination of a Executive level department. I guess playing with atomic weapons all the time and fiddling with the weather makes you grow too big for your britches.