What’s in it for the people who attend this National Academy? It seems unlikely that the FBI would be able to pay them without creating a paper trail and liability.
They get appointed to excellent jobs from people like Baker. If they do good for the agency they get promoted within the company and never have to worry about being laid off.
It is a massive intel network. So they get preferential hiring by other assets, business contracts from other assets, they can get other assets to only use friendly companies like landscapers or pool companies from assets.
What you do not grasp is the scale. You may be looking at 8-10% of the population recruited as assets in the domestic surveillance network, basically about 50% of what the Stasi had, and growing, probably with aspirations of matching the Stasi, and they are all scratching each other’s backs in their secret society and shutting you and your family out of opportunities.
And they have elevated each other into positions of power.
Of course there is a decent chance Jim Jordan will not look into this because of the most shocking part - they are operating in the political world, protecting each other there too, and it is not unlikely Jordan at some point was approached, and helped somehow, maybe naively, not realizing he was approached as part of an operation to get his hands dirty too.
It is basically what CIA did in Latin America, being done by a domestic intel op to our government.