Is she? I've seen both sides of the FAA, where they have done very poor work and where they have done a very good job at enforcing regulation to get at the heart of a safety issue.

Some regional airlines tend to abuse the concept of the FAA's granting of immunity for voluntary disclosures. In most cases the regional self discloses in such a way that their operational error falls on their Captain's Certificate and not on the Company's. They use self disclosure primarily to protect their company's Certificate at the expense of their pilot's Certificate. (and usually they hide, to the point of flat out lying, their involvement in the screw up)

A lazy, self absorbed, Inspector might be inclined to take these pre packaged enforcement cases and run with them. In contrast a good guy who's willing to dig a little finds common threads in the self disclosures and learns the systematic threats. They then act to interrupt, or fix, the chain that results in the errors. It probably would not be appropriate to name names here, but I've been impressed by some of the FAA Inspectors. The older, worked for a couple of airline types, with flight experience, tend to be VERY good.

Self reporting has proven itself as a very useful tool to improve safety. Yes, it can be abused, but over and over again this partnership has proven to be worth the effort.