Question

What is the proper term for an agency that fails to regulate the entities it is supposed to, often because the entity is so powerful that the agency just follows what the entity tells it to do?

Answer 1

Most directly, the president controls the bureaucracies by appointing the heads of the fifteen cabinet departments and of many independent executive agencies, such as the CIA, the EPA, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. These cabinet and agency appointments go through the Senate for confirmation.