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."
Part of the 1928 BCP Confession of Sin. Amazing how the old Episcopal Liturgy still applies so well to modern life, eh? ;-)