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Overseeing the Bureaucracy

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The bureaucracy is controlled from three directions: presidential appointments and budgets, congressional oversight and statute, and citizen tools like the Freedom of Information Act.

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The 1966 Act lets citizens demand agency records — oversight from below.

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Control is plural and partial by design; no single principal runs the machine.