I think you're onto something there actually. After the NSA revelations and too big to fail, the government may have realized "Hey, these morons literally do not care what we do, why hide it?"
At what point does it stop being corruption and start being "Stupid shit that we let happen?" I mean, if someone says "I'm going to drive off in your car and not give it back, that cool?" and you're like "Meh," that's not really stealing your car. If Obama says "I'm going to let these industries make their own rules," and we say "Oh, well they have experience, so I guess that makes sense," that's probably not something you could quite call corruption.