24: HA HA HA HA

How is the US in the show 24 still standing with the type of people running it? No one trusts each other. Every other sentence coming out of their mouths are lies (which may explain the last part). Every level of government has their own secret agenda. Everyone double-crosses each other. Everyone's intelligence shifts 180 degrees in a few minutes (for example, when did Chloe learn to pickpocket in one instance but be dumb enough to not reroute her phone call if she's secretly helping Jack?).

How do the terrorists still LOSE when they've got better organizational skills then the US government?