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That may be taking what I said too far but I see why you could read it that way. It was the weakness of my analogy.

These FBI people have information. They are disturbed by what they have seen happen, by what they have learned. And they are annoyed that this information is not getting into the public domain.

So to this extent they are loyal to the country. But I still wouldn’t call it cowardice that they choose to remain silent at this time. They are, in effect, trying to get attention. They are agitating to get their information out. They are dismayed that (apparently) neither Mueller nor IG Horowitz or Huber or Congress has sought them out and they are saying “Hey, we have some information that will shed light on these open questions”. But speaking out voluntarily and without striking a deal with the government is where they draw the line. They want protection in return for their testimony.

And that is where I can’t say I blame them. These are people who know the system. they know that their testimony may have ramifications on their careers, their families, their children, their pensions. They might get threatened, like General Flynn, with personal bankruptcy and the threat of having their spouses and children dragged into it. Their kids may get rejected from colleges. They are asking for some protection, some cover, so that they don’t get thrown under the bus for coming forward. This seems pretty fair request to me under the circumstances.

One other point just to be clear: Their agitating to speak tells us that, so far anyway, there is not a serious effort to obtain “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth” by any of the investigations. If there were such an effort these people would have already been interviewed by the SP, the IG or Congressional investigators.