Identify some of the issues regarding power and accountability in the federal bureaucracy?

The relationship between bureaucracy is not as rigid as iron triangle theory would have us believe - Also, more than three actors involved in process • For every issue, there are also a number of political elites who are involved (and who know each other via the issue) - Members of Congress, congressional committees, the president, advocacy groups, and "issue watchers" (like academics or highly interested citizens)