May we have a larger shovel, please?

Related Link » Prosecutor to Probe CIA Interrogations — Attorney General Parts With White House In Approving Preliminary Investigation:
“Obama and White House officials have said that they want to look ahead on national security; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said last week that the administration is eager to keep ‘going forward’ and that ‘a hefty litigation looking backward is not what we believe is in the country's best interest’. But the White House voiced support for Holder in a news conference held Monday on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where deputy press secretary Bill Burton told reporters that ‘ultimately, the decisions on who is investigated and who is prosecuted are up to the attorney general [...]. The president thinks that Eric Holder, who [sic] he appointed as a very independent attorney general, should make those decisions’.”
— ‘By Carrie Johnson, Washington Post Staff Writer, August 25, 2009’

Run that by me again? Boy, sometimes the organization chart of the Federal Executive Branch gets convoluted, doesn't it?

Let's see, the POTUS sits atop the Executive totem pole (some would argue that The Obama sits atop that great big Totem Pole in the Sky). And the President's Cabinet has always been shown in a rectangular box, located somewhere below the POTUS, with the VP flitting between the Executive, the Legislative, and, for our current Veep, the Loony Branch (there may be a redundancy here).

So, the Attorney General, generally thought to be part of the Cabinet, all of whose members traditionally have served at the pleasure of the POTUS (with the Senate's blessings, of course), has somehow flown the coop? Is this the current tune being hummed by our so-called Press Secretary of disinformation? And are we all supposed to just swallow this dollop of horseshit and say, "Thank you, kind sir; may I have another?"?

Post #904 May we have a larger shovel, please?