Who Is in Charge of the U.S. Executive Branch?

In response to my earlier post, Dr. Fauci: The Face Is Now the Scapegoat, several readers responded that it is the Department of Defense who is really in charge. While I heartily agree that the DoD is a great place to look, I respectfully submit that the DoD is not a human agent, but a large bureaucracy whose nominal director—the Secretary of Defense—is a political appointee. For my part, I doubt that Lloyd Austin is the true executive of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government.

The question...