Indeed, most federal agencies rely on a bureaucratic structure that favors hiring of people with former "federal experience". In most cases, that means ex-military. Oh, sure, you have a veneer of "true believers" regarding whatever a given agency's mission happens to be - but they are vastly outnumbered by the plain old bureaucrats - and many of *them* are the people who pay the agency's bills, maintain office leases, arrange travel - all the infrastructure stuff that the perfumed few at the top take for granted.
If DHS does an internal purge, it will cripple your agency and all the others under the Homeland Security umbrella, possibly for years. And hurricane season approaches. The "perfect storm" may be brewing, and I'm not just talking about tropical cyclones.
The beginning is nigh!!
Where’s the love??