“A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” said Kevin Lewis. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
This distancing of Obama from his underlings is really stupid.
The Constitution confers 100% of Executive onto a single person - The President. He is free to delegate that power to others, but it is HIS POWER he is delegating. The individuals themselves have no independent power.
So the President is 100% responsible for the actions of any of his subordinates.