You’re being disingenuous: Bribing is beneath them. It’s demonstrable, time & again.
This is what the FBI does. I guarantee that they targeted staff - or even SS - and got something they could use to turn them in exchange for either keeping secrets ‘secret’ or no prosecution for their off-work activities.
It’s par for the course with this corrupt branch of the democrat party.
That is more likely. On a side note, the FBI knows if Trump is re-elected the FBI will cease to exist, at least in the form it exists today. It’s a battle for survival.