Oh, if only you knew how seriously (stupidly in some cases) their hands are tied.
I concur: they do have their hands stupidly tied. However, they also tend to do things that they shouldn't and hide it under a gazillion TOP SECRET CODEWORD stamps.
There's an old line from the Book of Common Prayer: "We have done the things we ought not to have done, and have not do the things we ought to have done, and there is no health in us."