Just proves these people are corrupt as Hell.
If pardoned, then they can be hauled before Congress and Federal grand juries and they have to answer every question. No Fifth amendment.
Pardons are a double edged sword.
That “losing 5th amendment rights” is balony ... all they have to do is say “I don’t recall” as Comey did over 100 times.
Every last one of them will have amnesia. As I said before, whatever happened to judges who would jail people who refused to testify because they “cannot recall”? Or is that just a thing in the movies?
Which means they can implicate people who didn’t receive a pardon because they can’t plead the 5th. Or stay in the graybar motel until their memory improves. I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes if they receive a pardon and were actually involved in treasonous or other criminal activities - their unpardoned colleagues might take steps to insure their silence.