I was about to disagree with you, when my brain finally made sense of the double negative in that first paragraph. So I figured I'd just leave a comment to that

I was about to disagree with you, when my brain finally made sense of the double negative in that first paragraph. So I figured I'd just leave a comment to that effect to save anyone else the same potential mistake. In short, above is saying that the abuse and neglect was a feature, not a bug, as far as the government was concerned, and is absolutely correct.