Well, you're suggesting they are actively engaging in blackmail and political manipulation to retain their position. Even if they do have the information to blackmail in many cases, it does not mean they actually are.
Perhaps I'm just naive, but I like to think at their core they're not so immoral as to degrade themselves to that sort of behavior.
Just as I am certain they do not think of anything we are certain that they do a crime, neither would they think of using available information to influence political support a crime, either.
Perhaps I'm just naive, but I like to think at their core they're not so immoral as to degrade themselves to that sort of behavior.