[reformedliberal]

...300 lawsuits that put the taxpayer as well as black hats on the road to financial ruin, lots of people will rightly be angry at the black hats.
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While it happened during their tenure as government officials, aren’t the individuals responsible, rather than the nation?

I hope the individuals are bankrupted, lose their pensions and spend their remaining years in federal custody.

Also, consider that prominent journos and their employers are at risk. I forget which hedge fund/investment bank is supporting CNN, but this could take care of those sorry b@$+@rd$, too.

I believe the impossible is happening: POTUS is leading a scorched earth campaign. It reaches across the world. The old order changeth. He’s truly the right man at the right time.

[rx]

Well, I think and hope the culpability can and will fall on the individual black hats, but judges may see these things differently. Most gubmint employees in such a situation will likely claim, "I vus chust follovink awrdersss!"

Lawyers for the plaintiff are always looking for defendants with deep pockets to dun, especially if other defendants look a whole lot like "turnips" against whom one might get a judgment, but from whom one is likely never to receive anything more than a few thin dimes. Such lawyers are admonished to name as defendants anyone or any organization that might share in culpability.   (Oh, and IANAL, though I've paid 'em many millions.)

If a judge sees the plaintiff's claim as worthy, and a government employee-defendant's claim of not having a real choice as valid, the judge just might put you and me, the taxpayer on the hook.

I certainly agree with you on the rest.