Some of the key cabal members who don’t like the idea of rotting in prison will be saying the same thing soon. Given a choice of spending their golden years in jail and implicating people above them will be an easy choice. It always is.
They know that if Barr goes after Barry, it will soak up so much more investigative and legal time than it will for ten other people simultaneously, just because of that "If you're going to shoot at the King, you dare not miss" thing.
So the underlings have a clearly self-interested motive to see the DOJ go after Barry, irrespective of the amount of truth to their statements.
Who knows what the Game Theory AI programming and data input will yield!