If you or me lie to Congress, we go to jail. If the head of the FBI lies to Congress about spying on Americans (as demonstrated by the Snowden revelations), nothing happens.

I think you mean NSA right? James Klapper?

What does that mean? It's at least somewhat politicized and protects the status quo, but it's clearly not entirely such - powerful status quo people go to jail and suffer other penalties.

The meaningful question is, how and in what ways is it true, and who what where and when? And what shall we do about it?

Show me the Fortune 500 employers in jail for billions in wage theft vs those in jail for single digit dollar property theft from those same companies

as for what to do about it, anarchism (against state and capital) makes a compelling case over incremental policy reform