"One beginning point might be to compel the attorney general actually to manage the Justice Department and its investigative agencies in accordance with laws and executive orders going back to shortly after the Civil War. But other laws and traditions have given the U.S. attorneys considerable independence, making the Justice Department a scattershot 'adhocracy' rather than a tightly run, top-down bureaucracy."
—David Burnham, "The F.B.I.," The Nation