Pretty rare for the Senior Executive Service to get a mention.
These are the same sort of people that the Generals in the military represent other than the Joint Chiefs.
Special folks with special skills who run things in DC. They occupy important positions in all of the bureaucracies run under the Chief Executive. All of the approximate 75 of them.
According to the information released, a public service commitment that is grounded in the Constitution. That last comment would be false as most of the 75 Federal agencies would more than likely be Unconstitutional to begin with.
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/
Folks (the common man) simply somehow believe that all these departments and agencies under them are professional and apolitical, that you have objectivity.
That is just not the case.
All their leaders are “political appointees” and hand chosen by these appointees.
These appointees know what to say during a hearing to slip through because you have to at least for that one day before Congress pretend that you’re going to be fair when put in office. But everyone knows that already the very next day these folks begin to push an agenda, see Merrick Garland as an example.
They in turn select the top bureaucrats who serve at their discretion within each of these organizations. The top bureaucrats know from where the wind is blowing.
From the top, one can say that you have about three levels down where the leadership in all of government is highly politically tuned.
Within the FBI that would be the Director, Assistant Directors and all your SACs... Your ASACs “may” already be apolitical. It is not until you get to the agent supervisory position (SSA) GS-14 within the FBI where the politics is still present in recruitment (the people you have), policies and training, but at least the managers there are not pushing for all this political trash and have their task/job as their priority which is most of the time routine and outside the political fray.
There is some politics all the way down to the cases themselves and how they are handled, example J6 and the interviews of folks that did nothing wrong (blatant intimidation tactic), and those that did enter the Capital it was going after folks who essentially did no more than trespass for the most part (heavy handed approach). Another example is the questionable FISA on Trump tower during the elections of 2016. Interviewing parents that express concern at what is being pushed in the curricula at schools at request of a union... (Push things up)
Meantime, major issues get suppressed because they do not fit the vents of time. An example of this is when Holder personally ordered that all the voter suppression cases by the New Black Panthers in Obama’s first election be closed one year after the elections and after the dust settled (not like the Dallas Morning News is going to write about it at that point - favoring the liberal cause and old news). You had folks with baseball bats and berets standing in front of multiple polling stations and nothing ever came of it. Likewise, you have —blatant— corruption with Dallas officials that belong to a special class and are politically connected (even part of the Obama election mechanism), I’ll just refer to that person as Mr. JWP and this Special Investigative Matter (SIM) just sort of goes nowhere. (Push things down)
The FBI and their parent the DOJ (even worse) at this point is no longer apolitical.
They are standing with both feet on the political stage and are part of the DC theatrics.
That is both bad for the FBI long term (it will bite them in the @ss) and dangerous for our Republic since you now have a law enforcement and intelligence agency which is meddling in the elections.
But all of this is a consequence of weak character and immoral leadership.