aha, well maybe torchwood has captain jack as the front man projecting the public persona of a chickenshit rule breaking department, so not to arrouse too much international interest from similar organisations who might consider a slick well organised governement department as a threat to national security.

maybe its so secret even the dumbass captain jack is unaware of the full extent of the conspiracy he is being asked to front. and in actual fact there is some level headed M type person pulling the strings from afar giving jack just enough information to bungle his way through, while all the time this M character has his/her finger on the button of a thousand nukes!

maybe.