Or to look at it another way, the federal employees whose decisions you like are protected. This is identical to what happens here in Australia. Liability attaches to the Crown (Government) for the acts of it's employees and agents. This is good for lots of reasons but the biggest two are this. It gives people who have been genuinely wronged by a government employee someone with deep pockets to recover compensation from, and it prevents people from intimidating public officials through threats of legal action against them personally.Career Government Officials are immune to being held accountable it seems.