What makes an executive branch agency independent?

Erika is a human resource manager at bluetel inc., a software company. she receives a call from an hr manager at another software company asking about marshall, a software engineer who used to work at bluetel and has applied for a job at the caller's company. erika checks the company's records and sees that a coworker had accused marshall of racial discrimination, but an investigation did not turn up any evidence to support the charge. marshall left the company two months later, saying he was no longer comfortable there. erika is concerned about sharing the details of this situation with the caller. if telling the information to the caller leads to the other company not hiring marshall, what potentially unlawful behavior could marshall accuse bluetel of engaging in?

This cartoon appeared in 1916. the topic of the cartoon isa)the reason for the start of world war i. b)the success of us submarines in world war i. c)the military alliance between germany and mexico. d)the attitude in the us towards submarine warfare in world 

Me fast do you think the outcome of this case would have been the same if president nixon hadclaimed national security needs rather than executive privilege? why or why not?