Every time someone in gov't denies knowledge or responsibility, they demonstrate why the aggregation of power is a bad idea. That's precisely the problem, the larger the scope and complexity of the charter the higher the probability you'll get it wrong. Those of us that prefer limited gov't laugh when they take a defense to show that power wasn't abused. It's power that IS the problem, it doesn't matter if you abused it or not. It doesn't matter if you meant to be tyrannical or not, your intentions really don't matter, the result is the same.
So some may say, there is blame to go here or there because someone didn't know something they should have, but I say, maybe it was really foolish to expect them to know all that in the first place. Maybe the solution isn't putting some other person/agency in place that might do it better, but to actually limit the charter of that person/agency in the first place.
