These were acts of sedition and should be punishable by hanging!
The FBI has been an Agency out of control for years. Among the handful of analysts on the trail of Islamists active in the USA prior to 9/11 the Iraqi immigrant, Rita Katz, was one of the best. (See her seminal “Terrorist Hunter”, HarperCollins, 2003) Her depiction of a feckless FBI found on pages 268-330 is memorable. The Epilogue is priceless.
You know how you hated that know-it-all kid? or professor? or boss? That’s the FBI in a nutshell. Its the ‘my way or the hiway’ thinking that has dominated the Agency from the early days of J. Edgard Hoover. As such, it’s an outfit you don’t want to cross.