Creating a plausible site that looks like a Google password reset workflow may be a few minutes work for hackernews reading front end wizards, but it's not really the domain of disgruntled washington bureaucrats.
Disgruntled Washington bureaucrats have money. Money can buy you black hat devs. A few minutes work for a chance at $[x-xx],000? Done and done. Payment upon successful phish.
There are plenty of people that value money over morals.
