Or not only. It greatly depicts how organizations get crushed by incentives from management / politicians who have different goals than the organization.
A politician does not want to fight crime, he wants to win elections.
Wiretapping a drug dealer is not something that phone company wants to do. They want to sell cell phones and call plans.
Investigating your donors is not good for you, but you do not need to openly go against it. It is enough to place incompetent people in charge.