Node access checking is wrong

I was having trouble accessing nodes inside the nodequeue and it led me to discover that, from what I'm seeing right now, the access check for nodes is wrong. If the user doesn't have "administer nodes" permission, you forcefully restrict all unpublished nodes. There are many conditions and variables involved in node access; even with unpublished nodes.

Here's the query that's being ran:

SELECT DISTINCT n.nid AS nid
FROM 
{node} n
LEFT OUTER JOIN {nodequeue_nodes} nq ON nq.nid = n.nid
WHERE  (nq.sqid = :db_condition_placeholder_0) AND( (n.status = :db_condition_placeholder_1) OR (n.uid = :db_condition_placeholder_2) )
ORDER BY nq.position ASC

I don't see any joins on the node_access table.

For instance, I'm using Workbench Moderation, and certain roles are able to see unpublished nodes so they can moderate them. When they view the node queue, the node titles are excluded, but the other action links are there.

Perhaps a call to node_access() should be used for each node?