The analogy I keep getting is that they were like a bunch of middle school kids at their first party where the beer or pot came out, and since it was the cool thing to do, they all went along with it. Before long they were the ones on the inside, introducing others to to beer and pot.
The point of my analogy is, at some point in time all these people were probably straight, honest, objective agents. They got into an environment where the cool people were behaving a certain way and they followed suit, and before long they were leading the pack.
Who created this politically-charged environment? Well it damn sure wasn’t George W. Bush.
From personal experience..there was a huge shift in mood, morale and priorities in law enforcement when Obama was elected and ever more so when Lynch was made AG.