because like in the recent AIG case the government knows it can operate effectively by ignore laws, abusing them, and so on, because it never has to pay for such transgressions. No loses their position, no one is punished, and the agency which executes such actions is never held in accounts.

So much like all the stories we here about people losing their life savings to police and other government agencies it all comes down to insufficient laws preventing such behavior; there literally is no recourse.